The Department of Finance is proud of our record of world-leading research. Since the Department was founded in 2008, our faculty members have received numerous national and international research prizes and awards, including:
- Ian Martin - Q Group Jack Treynor Prize 2024
Awarded for Forecasting Crashes with a Smile (with Ran Shi)
- Dirk Jenter - PRI Award for Outstanding Research 2024, and ICPM Research Award (runner up) 2024
Awarded for Sustainable Investing: Evidence From the Field (with Alex Edmans and Tom Gosling)
- Dimitri Vayanos - Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award 2024
Awarded for Passive Investing and the Rise of Mega-Firms (with Hao Jiang and Lu Zheng)
- Daniel Paravisini - First Prize, Brattle Group Prize in Corporate Finance, American Finance Association (2023).
Awarded for Specialization in Bank Lending: Evidence from Exporting Firms (with Veronica Rappoport, and Philipp Schnabl).
- Dirk Jenter - Best Paper in Corporate Finance, Society for Financial Studies (2022)
- Huan Tang - Red Rock Finance Conference Best Paper Award (2021)
- Huan Tang - European Investment Forum Research Prize (2021)
- Huan Tang - Best Theses Award by the French Finance Association (2021)
- Huan Tang - AQR Top Finance Graduate Award (2020)
- Martin Oehmke - Best Paper in Responsible Finance, European Finance Association (2020)
- Vicente Cuñat and Kathy Yuan - Best Paper, Review of Corporate Finance Studies journal awards (2019)
- Ian Martin - Dimensional Fund Advisors Distinguished Paper Prize, American Finance Association (2019)
- Dong Lou - Crowell Memorial Prize, PanAgora Asset Management Academic Competition (2018)
- Christopher Polk - Capital Markets and Asset Pricing paper of the year, Journal of Financial Economics (2018)
- Ian Martin – Wharton School-WRDS Best Paper Award (2017)
- Ian Martin - AQR Insight Award Honorable Mention (2017)
- Daniel Paravisini and Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe - Jaime Fernandez de Araoz Award (2017)
- Georgy Chabakauri - Best Conference Paper Prize, European Finance Association (2016)
- Georgy Chabakauri - Best Paper in Asset Pricing Award, Society for Financial Studies (2016)
- Dimitri Vayanos - SFS Cavalcade Best Paper in Asset Pricing Award, Society for Financial Studies (2015)
- Ulf Axelson - Brattle Group Prize Distinguished Paper, American Finance Association (2015)
- Ulf Axelson - Brattle Group Prize Distinguished Paper, American Finance Association (2014)
- Dong Lou - Crowell Memorial Prize, PanAgora Asset Management Academic Competition (2014)
- Dong Lou and Christopher Polk - AQR Insight Award Honorable Mention (2014)
- Martin Oehmke - Brattle Group Prize Distinguished Paper, American Finance Association (2013)
- Igor Makarov - NASDAQ OMX Award for the best paper in asset pricing at the WFA (2012)
- Vicente Cuñat - Brattle Group Prize Distinguished Paper, American Finance Association (2012)
- Daniel Paravisini - Brattle Group Prize Distinguished Paper, American Finance Association (2011)
- Dong Lou - Crowell Memorial Prize, PanAgora Asset Management Academic Competition (2011)
- Daniel Paravisini - Brattle Group Prize Winner, American Finance Association (2010)
- Martin Oehmke - Best Conference Paper Prize, European Finance Association (2010)
- Peter Kondor - Smith Breeden First Prize for Best Paper in Asset Pricing, Journal of Finance (2009)
- Ulf Axelson - Brattle Group Prize Winner, American Finance Association (2009)