Conference Awards 2026 (33rd Finance Forum)

BEST PAPER ON EQUITY | BME

“Financial Integration and the Equity Term Structure: Insights from 150 Years of UK Data”

• Jens Soerlie Kvaerner (Tilburg University)
• Jan Sandoval (ESADE Business School)
• Ole Wilms (University of Hamburg)

BEST PAPER ON FIXED INCOME | BME

“Macro Announcement Premia and the Risk-Free Yield Curve”

• Diego Bonelli (Banco de España)
• Katsiaryna Falkovich (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
• Nils Friewald (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)

BEST PAPER ON DERIVATIVES | BME

“Information in Cross Currency Options”

• Pasquale Della Corte (Imperial College London)
• Roman Kozhan (University of Warwick)
• Anthony Neuberger (City St. George’s, University of London)

BEST PAPER ON ASSET MANAGEMENT | INVERCO

“The Impact of Active Managers on the Pricing of Underlying Assets in ETFs”

• Charles Trzcinka (Indiana University)
• Ziwei Zhao (HEC Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute)

BEST PAPER ON BANKING | SANFI

“Macro Announcement Premia and the Risk-Free Yield Curve”

• Diego Bonelli (Banco de España)
• Katsiaryna Falkovich (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
• Nils Friewald (NHH Norwegian School of Economics)

BEST PAPER ON REGULATION | CNMV

“Stablecoin Demand and the Pricing of U.S. Treasury Bills”

• Luis de la Horra (Universidad de Valladolid)
• Javier Perote Peña (Universidad de Salamanca)
• Pedro L. Vega (Universidad de Valladolid)

BEST PAPER ON CORPORATE FINANCE | INDEXA

“Non-Financial Liabilities and Effective Corporate Restructuring”

• Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics)
• Jens Josephson (Stockholm University)
• Hongyi Xu (Stockholm School of Economics)

BEST PAPER OF THE CONFERENCE | AEFIN

“Estimating the Impact of Loan Supply Shocks”

• Nittai Bergman (Tel Aviv University)
• Alejandro Casado (Bank of Spain)
• Rajkamal Iyer (Imperial College)
• Itay Saporta (Tel Aviv Univeristy)