Best Paper Award

2025

The winner of the 2025 UWFC Best Paper Award is:

"Investigating Instruments with Meta Regressions"

Aaron Pancost (Texas) and Garrett Schaller (Colorado State)

2024

The winner of the 2024 UWFC Best Paper Award is:

"Corporate Bond Factors: Replication Failures and a New Framework"

Jens Dick-Nielsen (Copenhagen), Peter Feldhutter (Copenhagen),

Lasse Heje Pedersen (Copenhagen) and Christian Stolborg (Copenhagen)

2023

The winner of the 2023 UWFC Best Paper Award is:

"The “Actual Retail Price” of Equity Trades "

Brad Barber (UC Davis), Xing Huang (Wash U), Philippe Jorion (UC Irvine),

Terrance Odean (UC Berkeley), and Chris Schwarz (UC Irvine)

2022

Title: Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation

Authors: Michael Ewens (Cal Tech), Kairong Xiao (Columbia) and Ting Xu (Virginia)

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2020

Title: Deep Learning in Asset Pricing

Authors: Markus Pelger (Stanford), Luyang Chen (Stanford) and Jason Zhu (Stanford)

2019

Title: Reconsidering Returns

Authors: Samuel Hartzmark (Chicago) and David Solomon (Boston College)

2018

Title: A Model of Safe Asset Determination

Author: Zhiguo He (Chicago), Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford), Konstantin Milbradt (Northwestern)

2017

Title: Asset-level Risk and Return in Real Estate Investments

Author: Jacob Sagi (North Carolina)

2016

Title: Relative Pay for Non-Relative Performance: Keeping Up with the Joneses with Optimal Contracts

Authors: Peter DeMarzo (Stanford) and Ron Kaniel (Rochester)

Best Paper Award

2015

Title: The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response

Authors: Eric Budish (Chicago), Peter Cramton (Maryland) and John Shim (Chicago)

2014

Title: Commodity Trade and the Carry Trade: A Tale of Two Countries

Authors: Robert Ready (Rochester), Nikola Roussanov (Wharton) and Collin Ward (Wharton)

2013

Title: Endogenous Liquidity and Defaultable Bonds

Authors: Zhiguo He (Chicago) and Konstantin Milbradt (MIT)

2012

Title: Health and Mortality Delta: Assessing the Welfare Costs of Household Insurance Choice

Authors: Ralph Koijen(Chicago) Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh(NYU), Motohiro Yogo(Minneapolis FED)

2011

Title: The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns

Authors: Nicolae Garleanu (Berkeley) Leonid Kogan MIT), and Stavros Panageas (Chicago)

2010

Title: The Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Wealth, Housing Finance, and Limited Risk-Sharing in General Equilibrium

Authors: Jack Favilukis (LSE), Sydney Ludvigson (NYU), Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (NYU)