International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) has offered a prize for the best paper by a student submitted for inclusion in the programme of its annual conference since 1984. The prize is sponsored by Elsevier Scientific. The winner of the Student Paper Competition usually receives a year’s subscription to the Journal of Economic Psychology and a prize of €800-1000. The second and third place winners usually receive a year’s subscription to the Journal of Economic Psychology. A panel of senior scientists judges the papers using the following criteria: (a) interest of subject area; (b) quality of research; and (c) quality of writing.
Stephan graduated in September 2015 from the TI MPhil program, and is currently a PhD candidate under supervision of Theo Offerman at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED), Universiy of Amsterdam. He is also a member of the Research Center for Epistemic Game Theory (EpiCenter) at Maastricht University. Stephan previously also won the third prize in the UvA 2016 Thesis Prize Competition.
Research fellow Shaun Shalvi won the prize in 2010 and was also co-author of this year’s winner.