PAPER AWARDS (RUNNER UP PAPERS)

Best MFJ Paper announced at the conference (prize 2,000 USD)
(All papers published in the MFJ special issue following the MFC 2013)

Best Paper Award (prize 1,500 USD)
(Open to all papers presented at the conference)

• Isil Erel, Yeejin Jang and Michael Weisbach: Do Acquisitions Relieve Target Firms‘ Financial Constraints?
• Itzhak Ben-David, Francesco Franzoni and Rabih Moussawi: ETFs, Arbitrage and Shock Propagation
• Yanbo Wang: Media and Google: The Impact of Information Supply and Demand on Stock Returns
• Peter Feldhutter, Edith Hotchkiss and Oguzhan Karakas: The Impact of Creditor Control on Corporate Bond Pricing and Liquidity
• Qingzhong Ma and Andrey Ukhov: What is Common Among Return Anomalies? Evidence from Insider Trading Decisions
• Harry Evans, Shuqing Luo and Nandu Nagarajan: CEO Turnover, Financial Distress and Contractual Innovations
• Allen N. Berger, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami and Raluca A. Roman: Bank Internationalization and Risk-Taking
• Snehal Banerjee and Brett Green: Learning Whether Other Traders are Informed
• Mehmet Umutlu, Levent Akdeniz and Aslihan Altay-Salih: Foreign Equity Trading and Average Stock-Return Volatility
• Jan Danilo Ahmerkamp and James Bruce Alexander Grant: The Returns to Carry and Momentum Strategies: Business Cycles, Hedge Fund Capital and Limits to Arbitrage
   

Best Young Researcher Award (prize 1,000 USD)

(Open to all papers presented by young researchers, less than eight years after PhD)

• Alejandro Bernales and Massimo Guidolin: Learning How to Smile: Can Rational Learning Explain the Predictable Dynamics in the Implied Volatility Surface?
• Orcun Kaya and Yalin Gunduz: Sovereign Default Swap Market Efficiency and Country Risk in the Eurozone
• Yanbo Wang: Media and Google: The Impact of Information Supply and Demand on Stock Returns
• Arie Eskenazi Gozluklu: Pre-Trade Transparency and Informed Trading: An Experimental Approach to Hidden Liquidity
• Valerio Poti, Richard Levich and Pierpaolo Pattitoni: Predictability, Trading Rule Profitability and Learning in Currency Markets
• Andrea M. Buffa: Strategic Risk Taking with Systemic Externalities
• Jan Danilo Ahmerkamp and James Bruce Alexander Grant: The Returns to Carry and Momentum Strategies: Business Cycles, Hedge Fund Capital and Limits to Arbitrage
• Vesela Ivanova and Josep Maria Puigvert Gutierrez: Getting Real Forecasts, State Price Densities and Risk Premium from Euribor Options
  
  

Best Doctoral Paper Award (prize 500 USD)
(Open to all thesis papers presented at the conference)

• Yanbo Wang: Media and Google: The Impact of Information Supply and Demand on Stock Returns
• Jan Danilo Ahmerkamp and James Bruce Alexander Grant: The Returns to Carry and Momentum Strategies: Business Cycles, Hedge Fund Capital and Limits to Arbitrage
• Vesela Ivanova and Josep Maria Puigvert Gutierrez: Getting Real Forecasts, State Price Densities and Risk Premium from Euribor Options
• Ata Can Bertay: Securitization, Financial Development and Economic Growth
• Mesut Tastan, Sonia Falconieri and Igor Filatotchev: Does Venture Capital Syndicate Size Matter?
• Bora Ozkan: Predictability of Real Estate Price Index Returns in Emerging Markets