In
order to honor the memory of Don Rodrigo Gómez (1897-1970), Director
General of Banco de Mexico (1952-1970), the governors of the Latin
American central banks established an annual prize to encourage
research in areas of interest for central banks.
The
following are the rules governing the call for papers for the prize
to be awarded in 2012:
1. The author(s) of the papers submitted to the contest must be
nationals of the associate members of the Center for Latin
American Monetary Studies.1 No staff member from
CEMLA may participate.
2. The topics of the papers must bear upon the functions and
aspects of direct interest to regional central banks. Among
other topics, papers on monetary policy, macroeconomic
stability, financial stability, central bank operations,
financial cooperation between Latin American and Caribbean
countries or the repercussions of international financial events
on the region may be submitted.
3. The papers that are submitted must be original and unedited,
and must be final versions. In other words, they must not have
been published in print or electronically, either individually
or in a journal, book or compilation. Papers that have been
circulated in printed or electronic form (on restricted access
websites) for expert consultation during their preparatory
stages may be submitted to the Award. University degree theses
and papers submitted to the annual meetings of the Central Bank
Researchers’ Network of the American Continent may also be
submitted to the Award, so long as they comply with said
requirements.
4. The papers may be submitted in Spanish, French, English or
Portuguese, accompanied if possible by an English or Spanish
translation, in order to facilitate the work of the panel of
judges. The papers should not exceed 20,000 words or 50 pages
(whichever comes first), including the cover, abstract,
introduction, development, conclusions and appendices or
annexes.
5. No papers that have participated in previous editions of the
Rodrigo Gomez Award may be submitted. Likewise, submitted papers
may not compete for other awards or be under consideration by
other publications such as specialized journals, books or
compilations, until the Award’s results have been published.
6. The authors implicitly authorize the reproduction of papers
submitted to the Rodrigo Gómez Award in CEMLA publications (Monetaria
or Boletín). Said authorization does not imply that they will in
effect be published, since this remains at the discretion of
CEMLA’s Editorial Committee, once the papers submitted to the
Award have been reviewed and evaluated. In the event that any
paper is published by CEMLA in any of its journals, there will
be a specific mention to the effect that it was due to its
participation in the contest.
7. The panel of judges shall comprise the governors of the
central bank associate members on CEMLA’s Board of Governors, or
their representatives, as well as up to four additional
representatives of associate members or collaborators, renowned
researchers or both. In its capacity as permanent secretariat
for the governors meetings, CEMLA shall act as advisory body to
the panel in such ways as the latter shall determine, and will
see to the administrative aspects of the contest.
8. When remitting the papers to the members of the panel, CEMLA
shall suppress the names of the authors and shall assign each
paper submitted a pseudonym, which shall be the only means of
identification available to the panel in communicating the
corresponding evaluations.
9. The papers shall be evaluated by objective criteria and
mechanisms defined by the panel. Once the papers have been
reviewed, the Board of Governors shall announce the result and
shall authorize CEMLA to notify the outcome to the author(s) of
the winning paper(s).
10. There shall be only one prize, consisting of the amount of
ten thousand United States dollars and a diploma, which shall be
awarded to the paper(s) deserving said distinction according to
the criteria of the panel of judges. In the case of a declared
tie for the first place between two or more competing papers,
the prize shall be divided in equal parts among the papers, and
for each of them, in equal parts among the authors. Honorary
mentions can also be awarded to up to two other papers. The
result shall not be subject to appeal, and the panel may declare
the prize vacant should it so deem appropriate.
11. The Award will be presented at a special ceremony held in
the winning author or authors’ country of origin.
12. The author(s) of the winning paper(s) and of the honorary
mentions implicitly grant CEMLA the exclusive right to
translate, edit and publish the winner paper.
13. Participants must send a file in Word or PDF (in their most
recent versions) by e-mail to the addresses:
rodrigo_gomez@cemla.org
or demaria@cemla.org, by
March 30, 2012.
1Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia,
Brazil, Curaçao and Saint Maarten, Eastern Caribbean (Anguilla,
Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Granada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and
Nevis, Santa Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana,
Haiti, Honduras, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago,
Uruguay and Venezuela.
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