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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Awards
2013 UBS Global Asset Management Award for Research in Investments: Samuel 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 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 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 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 Awards
2009 Best Paper Award: Alex Edmans, Xavier Gabiax, and Tomasz Sadzik, “Dynamic Incentive Accounts”
2009 Best Discussant Award: Eric Zitzewitz
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 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 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 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 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.