Conference Awards

Best Paper Award

2015: Volatility Managed Portfolios by Alan Moreira (Yale U) and Tyler Muir (Yale U)

2016: Kinky Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior by Qiping Xu (U Notre Dame) and Eric Zwick (U Chicago)

2017: Unconventional Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Relationships by Christophe Cahn (Banque de France), Anne Duquerroy (Banque de France) and William Mullins (UCSD)

2018: Does Increasing Formal Credit Access Reduce Payday Borrowing? by Cindy Soo (U Michigan) and Sarah Miller (U Michigan)

2019: The Allocation of Talent Across Mutual Fund Strategies by Andrea Buffa (BU) and Apoorva Javadekar  (Indian School of Business)

2021: Partisan Entrepreneurship by Joey Engelberg (UCSD), Jorge Guzman (Columbia U), Runjing Lu (U Alberta) and William Mullins (UCSD)

2022: Optimal Time Consistent Debt Policies by Andrey Malenko (U Michigan) and  Anton Tsoy (U Toronto)

2023: Strategic Arbitrage in Segmented Markets  by Svetlana Bryzgalova (LBS), Anna Pavlova (LBS) and Taisiya Sikorskaya (LBS)

2024: Growth-Indexed Securities by Stavros Panageas (UCLA)

Best Job Market Paper Award

2015: Household Debt Overhang and Labor Supply by Asaf Bernstein (MIT)

2016: Attention Grabbers when Seeking Alpha by Tarik Umar (U Chicago)

2017: Information Dynamics and Debt Maturity by Thomas Geelen (EPFL) 

2018: (Debt) Overhang: Evidence from Resource Extraction by Michael Wittry (UW)

2019: Social Collateral by Ha Diep-Nguyen (Indiana U), with Huong Dang (FTU, Vietnam)

2021: Long-term Investors, Demand Shifts, and Yields by Kristy Jansen (Tillburg U)

2022: Who Values Democracy? by Max Miller (Wharton)

2023: Lawyers Setting the Menu: The Effects of Litigation Risk on Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans by Michael Gropper (UNC)

2024: Regulator Beliefs by Manav Chaudhary (U Chicago)

Best Discussant Award

2022: Dimitry Muravyev (Michigan State U)

2023: Tim Liu (U Utah)

2024: Noah Stoffman (Indiana U)