Cambridge Finance is proud to announce that the winners of the Best student Paper Award for are:
2023 - 2024
Winner:
Charles Parry (Faculty of Economics)
'Start Up Financing, Entry and Innovation'
Runner Up:
Lennart Niermann (Faculty of Economics)
Tying Yourself to the Mast: Painful Debt as a Commitment Device in Self-Fueling Debt Crises
2022 - 2023
Alba Patozi (Faculty of Economics)
Green Transmission: Monetary Policy in the Age of ESG
2021 - 2022
Niklas Schmitz (Faculty of Economics)
The Downside Risk Channel of Monetary Policy
and
Yuxia Zou (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Corporate Social Responsibility Committee:
International Evidence
2020 - 2021
Best paper prize awarded to Daniel Ostry, Faculty of Economics, for his paper
Tails of Foreign Exchange at Risk (FEaR): Exchange Rate Disasters and Dollar Liquidity Yields
Honourable mention given to Naoki Yago, Faculty of Economics, for his paper Financial Market Globalization and Asset Price Bubbles
2019 - 2020
Shiqi Chen
(Cambridge Judge Business School)
Financial Policies and Internal Governance with Heterogeneous Risk Preference
Seung Huyn (Fred) Maeng
(Faculty of Economics)
and
Zhenbin Zuo (Faculty of Law)
received a Honourable mention for the paper tited
Governance by Algorithm:China’s Social Credit System
2018 - 2019
Margit Reischer
(Faculty of Economics)
Finance-thy-Neighbor. Trade Credit Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations
and
Chariklea Kaffe
(Cambridge Judge Business School)
Peer Effects in Investment Manager Selection: Evidence from University Endowments
2017 - 2018
Maarten de Ridder (Faculty of Economics)
Investment in Productivity and the Long-Run Effect of Financial Crises on Output
Tom Auld (Faculty of Economics)
The Behaviour of Betting and Currency Markets on the Night of the EU Referendum
2016-2017 :
Ekaterina Smetanina (Faculty of Economics)
Real-time GARCH: Modelling and forecasting the tail
and
Emile Marin (Faculty of Economics)
Self-fulfilling Crises and Country Solidarity
and
Vaska Atta-Darkua (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Received Honourable Mention
for her paper:
Corporate Ethical Behaviours and Equity Value:
evidence from the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth
2015-2016:
Simon Lloyd (Faculty of Economics)
Estimating Nominal Interest Rate Expectations: Overnight Indexed Swaps and the Term Structure
Jonathan Smith (Faculty of Economics)
Received Honourable Mention
for his paper
The Leverage Ratio, Risk-Taking and Bank Stability
and
Scott Lang (Department of Law)
Received Honourable Mention
for his paper
2014-2015:
Anil Ari, Faculty of Economics, Sovereign Risk and Bank Risk-Taking
and
Jeroen Dalderop, Faculty of Economics, Nonparametric State-Price Density using High-Frequency Data
2013-2014:
D. B. R. Derrett, Diffusion-generated Jump Processes:A Framework for Efficient Pricing with Jumps and Stochastic Volatility
and
Nicky Ferguson (co-authored with P. Raghavendra Rau), Understanding Equity Co-movement: An Information Based Approach
Edmond Smith Received Honourable Mention for his paper, Crowdfunding an Early Modern Start-up: Mapping Investment in the East India Company
2012-2013:
Arun Thillaisundaram, The Merton Problem with a Drawdown Constraint on Consumption
2011-2012:
Gabor Pinter (joint paper with Peter N. Gal) - Capital in the Business Cycle: Renting versus Ownership
2010-2011 (awarded to 2 papers):
Henri Buchsteiner, Cambridge Judge Business School & Kiril Zavadov, Department of Land Economy - 'Bubbles & Crises in Open Economies'
Ezequiel Antar, Statistical Laboratory - 'Mutually beneficial contingent claims in incomplete markets'
2009-2010:
Sergejs Saksonovs, Faculty of Economics - Explaining external asset allocation: a multi-country model with preference heterogeneity
2008-2009:
Dapeng Gu, Faculty of Economics - External imbalances and sustainability
The deadline for submission of papers is 31st May each year.
The winner is announced at the Cambridge Finance student lunch in June.
View full details of the entry criteria here.