CERFAS Best Paper Award

Congratulations to former CERF Research Associate Dr. Marwin Mönkemeyer for winning the Best Paper Award with the paper 'Blockholder Networks, Information Exchange, and M&A Performance' written with Gishan Dissanaike, Wolfgang Drobetz and Henning Schröder.

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Congratulations to former CERF Research Associate Elias Ohneberg for winning the runner up Best Paper Award with the paper 'The Hidden Costs of Networking and How it Affects Mutual Fund Managers'

Congratulations to former CERF Research Associate Shaoting Pi for winning the runner up Best Paper Award with the paper 'Strategic Voting and Informational Rents:   Evidence from Mutual Funds' Trades and Votes' written with Meng Gao and Jiekun Huang.

Congratulations to current CERF Research Associate Dr. Lucy Wang for winning the Best Paper Award with the paper 'The Human Capital Reallocation of M&As: Inventor-level Evidence' 

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Congratulations to current CERF Research Associate Kevin Schneider for winning the runner up Best Paper Award with the paper 'Seasonal Inventory Leverage'

Congratulations to Visiting CERF Research Associate Shiqi Chen for winning the runner up Best Paper Award with the paper 'Industry Dynamics and Capital Structure (Non) Commitment' written with Frank Xu.

Congratulations to former CERF Research Associate Dr. Sunwoo Hwang for winning the Best Paper Award with his paper 'Labor-Management Relational Capital' 

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Congratulations to former CERF Research Associate Dr. Mehrshad Motahari for winning the Best Paper Award with his paper 'Star Firms, Information Externalities, and Predictability'

Congratulations to former CERF Research Associate Dr. Alex Tse, for winning the first ever Best Paper Award with his paper 'Portfolio Selection, Periodic Evaluations and Risk Taking'. Alex has also written a CERF blog on this paper (December 2022).