The Meheroo Jussawalla Research Award is given to the best participant research paper at PTC’s Annual Conference. Open to researchers, faculty, Ph.D. students, and post-docs, submitting a single-authored not previously published paper.
PTC Research Award
Benefits
- USD 1,000 cash
- Conference registration waiver
- Opportunity to present winning paper at PTC’26
- Stipend of up to USD 1,500 for flight and accommodations
(recipient to arrange their own flight and accommodations) - Award certificate
How to be considered
Submit an abstract through the Call for Participation by 6 June 2025. If accepted, the full research paper must be submitted by 29 September 2025.
Terms and conditions
- Researchers and faculty members are welcome to apply. Students with a faculty co-author may also submit a paper for this award.
- Must be an original research paper pertaining to one of the topics listed in this year’s Call for Participation.
- Previous award recipients are not eligible to apply/submit in subsequent award cycles.
- Author will allow PTC to publish their paper and presentation slides to the PTC’26 online conference program.
- Publication of the paper elsewhere is allowed after it has been presented at PTC’26.
2025
The 2025 Meheroo Jussawalla Research Award recipients are Yuntsai Chou, Professor at Yuan Ze University and Deputy CEO of the 21st Century Foundation, and co-author Li-dar Wang, Distinguished Professor at National Chengchi University.
Their paper, The Antitrust Crackdown on Big Tech: A Cross-Country Analysis of Regulatory Efficacy as Reflected in the Securities Market, analyzes the financial impact of antitrust regulations on big tech firms in the United States, the European Union, and China using an event study model. Their findings show that improper data use, tying, and exclusivity significantly affected stock performance. China’s regulatory crackdown led to substantial stock declines, while monetary penalties had the most significant effect across all regions. In contrast, enforcement in the United States and the European Union had minimal impact due to lengthy judicial reviews. They recommend prioritizing monetary penalties as the most effective approach to regulating big tech.
Yuntsai presented the paper at PTC’25 on Tuesday, 21 January 2025, during the Research Topical Session: Regulation from 15:45-17:15 in MPCC, Nautilus 1 & 2.
Previous award
winners.
2019: Bin Zhang
Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, People’s Republic of China
Study on the information measurement system under the background of [the] embedded infoshpere
Meheroo Jussawalla Research Award
Meheroo Jussawalla (1923-2012) was a senior fellow emerita and expert in the economics of telecommunications at the prestigious East-West Center in Honolulu. She served as an Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Economics and the School of Communications at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A leading scholar in the economics of telecommunications, she published 15 books in the field and garnered several national and international awards, including two from the Pacific Telecommunications Council.
