Previous Programs

2023 Program

2023 Awards

2023 Blackrock Best Paper Award: Tim de Silva “Insurance versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment”

2023 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Tim de Silva “Insurance versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment”

2023 Best Discussant Award: James Weston

2022 Program

2022 Awards

2022 Blackrock Best Paper Award: Christopher Schwarz, Brad Barber, Xing Huang, Philippe Jorion and Terrance Odean “The ‘Actual Retail Price’ of Equity Trades”

2022 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Menaka Hampole, “Student Debt and Labor Market Trajectories”

2022 Best Discussant Award: Emily Gallagher

2021 Program

2021 Awards

2021 Blackrock Best Paper Award: Jonathan Cohn, Zack Liu & Malcolm Wardlaw, “Count Data in Finance”

2021 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Tong Liu, “Bargaining with Private Equity: Implications for Hospital Prices and Patient Welfare”

2021 Best Discussant Award: Tony Cookson

2019 Program

2019 Awards

2019 Blackrock Best Paper Award: Paul Decaire, “Capital Budgeting and Idiosyncratic Risk”

2019 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Jun Aoyagi, “Speed Choice by High-Frequency Traders with Speed Bumps

2019 Best Discussant Award: James Weston

2018 Program

2018 Awards

2018 Blackrock Best Paper Award: Elisabeth Kempf and Margarita Tsoutsoura, “Partisan professionals: evidence from credit rating analysts” AND Alexander Chinco, “The madness of crowds and the likelihood of bubbles”

2018 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Lu Liu, “Product proliferation as price obfuscation? evidence from the mortgage market

2018 Best Discussant Award: Daniel Andrei

2017 Program

2017 Awards

2017 Best Paper Award: Alexander Chinco and Slava Fos, “The sound of many funds rebalancing”

2017 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Andrei Goncalves, “Can reinvestment risk explain the dividend and bond term structures?

2017 Best Discussant Award: Ing-Haw Cheng

2016 Program

2016 Awards

2016 Best Paper Award: Johann Reindl, Neal Stoughton, & Josef Zechner,“Market Implied Costs of Bankruptcy”

2016 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Pablo Slutzky, “Doing Business in Emerging Markets: The Benefits of Being Private

2016 Best Discussant Award: Todd Gormley

2015 Program

2015 Awards

2015 Best Paper Award: Brian Weller, “Measuring Tail Risk in Real Time”

2015 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Brian Weller, “Measuring Tail Risk in Real Time

2015 Best Discussant Award: Arthur Korteweg

2014 Program

2014 Awards

2014 Best Paper Award: Tobias Moskowitz, “Asset Pricing and Sports Betting

2014 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Ian Appel, “Governance by Litigation

2014 Best Discussant Award: Kenneth Ahern

2013 Program

2013 Awards

2013 UBS Global Asset Management Award for Research in InvestmentsSamuel Hartzmark, “The worst, the best, ignoring all the rest: The rank effect and trading behavior”

2013 Best Paper Award: Roni Kisin and Asaf Manela, “The shadow cost of capital requirements”

2013 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Samuel Hartzmark, “The worst, the best, ignoring all the rest: The rank effect and trading behavior”

2013 Best Discussant Award: Dirk Jenter

2012 Program

2012 Awards

2012 UBS Global Asset Management Award for Research in Investments:Stefano Giglio and Kelly Shue, “No news is news. Do markets underreact to nothing?”

2012 Best Paper Award: David Solimon and Eugene Soltes, “What are we meeting for? The consequences of private meetings with investors”

2012 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Andrew MacKinlay, “(How) Do taxes affect capital structure?,” and Stephen McKeon, “Manager-initiated versus investor-initiated equity issuances”

2012 Best Discussant Award: Michael Roberts

2011 Program

2011 Awards

2011 Best Paper Award: William Johnson, Jonathan Karpoff, and Sangho Li, “Why do IPO firms have takeover defenses “

2011 Michael J. Barclay Young Scholar Award: Jesse Blocher, “Contagious capital: A network analysis of interconnected intermediaries”

2011 Best Discussant Award: Jonathan Lewellen

2010 Program

2010 Awards

2010 Best Paper Award: Sophie Shive, Local investors, price discovery, and market efficiency “

2010 Michael J. Barclay Ph.D. Student Award: Moqi Xu, “CEO Contract Horizon and Investment”

2010 Best Discussant Award: Joey Engelberg

2009 Program

2009 Awards

2009 Best Paper Award: Alex Edmans, Xavier Gabiax, and Tomasz Sadzik, “Dynamic Incentive Accounts”

2009 Best Discussant Award:  Eric Zitzewitz

2008 Program

2008 Awards

2008 Best Paper Award: William J. Mayew and Mohan Venkata, “The Power of Voice: Managerial Affective State and Future Firm Performance.”

2008 Michael J. Barclay Ph.D. Student Award: Breno Schmidt, “Costs and Benefits of ‘Friendly Boards’ During Mergers and Acquisitions”

2008 Best Discussant Award: Sergei Davydenko

2007 Program

2007 Awards

2007 Best Paper Award: David Goldreich and Lukasz Pomorski, “Bargaining Power and Negotiated Division of Prizes in Poker Tournaments”

2007 Michael J. Barclay Ph.D. Student Award: Siddhartha G. Dastidar, “Does Asset Supply Affect Asset Returns? Evidence from the Agency Bond Market”

2007 Best Discussant Award: Rajesh Aggarwal

2006 Program

2006 Awards

2006 Best Paper Award: Martijn Cremers and Antti Petajisto, “How active is your fund manager?”

2006 Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award: Tony Tang, “Information asymmetry and firms’ credit market access: Evidence from Moody’s credit rating format refinement”

2006 Best Discussant Award: Eric Zitzewitz

2006 at a Glance: 75% of program currently published (in JF, RFS, JFE, JE Lit). 12.5% of program published as lead article.

2005 Program

2005 Awards

2005 Best Paper Award: Clifford G. Holderness, “A Contrarian view of ownership concentration in the United States and around the world”

2005 Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award: Camelia M. Kuhnen, “Social networks, corporate governance and contracting in the mutual fund industry”

2005 Best Discussant Award: Wayne Ferson

2005 at a Glance: 90% of program currently in published (in JF, RFS, or JFE). 30% of program published as lead article.

2004 Program

2004 Awards

2004 Best Paper Award: Jarrad Harford and Kai Li, “Decoupling CEO wealth and firm performance:The case of acquiring CEOs”

2004 at a Glance: 80% of program currently published.