Ross Best Paper Award

2008 - 4rd Award

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Modeling loan commitments
Sudheer Chava, Robert Jarrow
Finance Research Letters, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 11-20

Patterns in cross market liquidity
Matthew Spiegel
Finance Research Letters, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 2-10

 Previous award winners:

2007 - 3rd Award
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Why inexperienced investors do not learn: They do not know their past portfolio performance
Markus Glaser and Martin Weber
Finance Research Letters, Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2007, Pages 203-216

2006 - 2nd Award
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Disentangling risk aversion and intertemporal substitution through a reference level
René Garcia, Éric Renault and Andrei Semenov
Finance Research Letters, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2006, Pages 181-193

2005 - 1st Award
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Changes in stockholding behavior: Evidence from household survey data
Kenneth Chapman, James P. Dow, Jr. and Govind Hariharanume
Finance Research Letters, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2005, Pages 89-96

Finance Research Letters is pleased to announce the creation of an annual award for the best paper published in each volume. The award will have a monetary value of US$1,000.

The award is named after Professor Stephen A. Ross, the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, to recognize his immense and varied contributions to the field of Finance.

A committee formed from the Editorial Board of the journal will choose the winner. The winner of the award will be announced in the June issue each year.

Readers of the journal are invited to nominate papers for the award for the current volume via email by December 31. Please send your nominations to Ramo Gençay, Editor-in-Chief, at gencay@sfu.ca.