Moriguchi Prize
Established with a donation from Chikashi Moriguchi, Professor Emeritus of the University of Osaka, to encourage graduate student research in the field of economics.
The 28th ISER Moriguchi Prize Winner
Keita Sunada
Optimal treatment assignment rules under capacity constraints
Ryo Tsukamoto
Strategy-proof Voluntary Pairwise Exchange with Dichotomous Preferences
Kotaro Fujisaki
Policy for Closing Education Gaps across Gender and Culture: Tuition-Free Education or School Construction?
The 29th ISER Moriguchi Prize Application
Eligibility
An applicant must be, or have been, either a researcher affiliated with a university in Japan (regardless of ethnicity/nationality) or a researcher of Japanese nationality affiliated with a university overseas, as of January 2026.
Prize
The winner (one person) will be awarded one hundred thousand yen, and the prize-winning paper will be published in the ISER Discussion Paper Series.
Requirements for Submission
- The paper should cover a research topic in Economics.
- The paper should be written in English, and abide by standard writing-style conventions for academic papers.
- In the case of co-authored papers, all of the authors should meet the eligibility criteria outlined above.
- An applicant cannot submit more than one paper.
Documents Required when Submitting
Applicants should submit documents (1) through (5) below during the submission period. All the documents must be submitted electronically in PDF format to the email address designated below.
- Application form (Download from here)[Download]
- Curriculum vitae (Note: an ID photo is not required).
- Research paper
- A recommendation letter from the applicant’s supervisor (or equivalent). Note: the same person cannot recommend more than one applicant.
- A review report or a letter from the editor if the paper was submitted to a refereed journal and has received a positive response.
E-mail Address for Submission
Moriguchi Prize Committee, ISER, The University of Osaka
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Submission period
2026-07-01 ~ 2026-07-31 Japan Standard Time (JST)
Selection Process
Three candidates will be selected from the pool of applicants and invited to present their paper in English at the Moriguchi-Prize event, which is scheduled to take place at the ISER on 2026-11-16. Following the presentations, a committee of ISER faculty members will nominate one paper as the Moriguchi-Prize winner. Additionally, the presentation must be conducted in-person.
Announcement
The results (including the names of all candidates and the winner) will be displayed on the ISER web site and other media.
Miscellaneous
- All candidates participating in the presentation session will be provided with travel expenses (transportation/accommodation fee and daily allowance) in accordance with The University of Osaka’s travel regulations. For candidates traveling from overseas, a maximum of two hundred thousand yen will be provided for travel expenses.
- When a prize-winning paper is published in a refereed journal, the author should indicate in the acknowledgements section that this paper was awarded the 2026 Moriguchi Prize by the Institute of Social and Economic Research at The University of Osaka
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