1. The author(s) of the papers submitted to the contest must be nationals of the countries of the central banks in the region1. No staff member from the Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos (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 the above 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 may 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.
6. The authors implicitly authorize the reproduction of papers submitted to the Rodrigo Gómez Award in CEMLA publications (Monetaria, Money Affairs 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. 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 in the amount of ten thousand United States dollars, 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. The result shall not be open to appeal, and the panel may declare the prize vacant should it so deem appropriate.
11. The author(s) of the winning paper(s) implicitly granted to CEMLA his/her permission to translate, edit and publish the winner study into the corresponding book.
12. The 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 February 28, 2010 at the latest.
1 Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, , Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eastern Caribbean (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Granada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Santa Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Granadines), Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.
