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.