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Finalists for Cavalcade Best Paper Awards

The 2015 Cavalcade Conference Chairs are excited to announce the finalists for the Cavalcade Best Paper Awards. The winners will be announced at the Awards Reception on Tuesday, May 19, at the SFS Finance Cavalcade Conference. The finalists are:

Cavalcade Best Paper in Corporate Finance, in honor of Jerome A. Chazen, sponsored by the Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia Business School

  • Dynamic Adverse Selection: Time Varying Market Conditions and Endogenous Entry by Pavel Zryumov
  • Government Credit, a Double-Edged Sword: Evidence from the China Development Bank by Hong Ru
  • Government Guarantees and Financial Stability by Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, Itay Goldstein, and Agnese Leonello
  • The Deposits Channel of Monetary Policy by Itamar Drechsler, Alexi Savov, and Philipp Schnabl

Cavalcade Best Paper in Asset Pricing, sponsored by the Society for Financial Studies

  • Asset Management Contracts and Equilibrium Prices by Andrea M. Buffa, Dimitri Vayanos, and Paul Woolley
  • Can Leverage Constraints Make Overconfident Investors Better Off? by Rawley Heimer
  • How Many Good and Bad Funds are There, Really? by Wayne Ferson, and Yong Chen
  • The Price of Variance Risk by Ian Dew-Becker, Stefano Giglio, Anh Le, and Marius Rodriguez

The Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income, sponsored by The Arthur Warga Award endowment

  • Bond Market Exposures to Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy Risks by Dongho Song
  • Call Me Maybe? The Effects of Exercising Contingent Capital by Boris Vallee
  • Debt Correlations in the Wake of the Financial Crisis: What are Appropriate Default Correlations for Structured Products? by John Griffin and Jordan Nickerson
  • Regulatory Arbitrage in Repo Markets by Benjamin Munyan

Join us at the Awards Reception to find out which papers win. For more, visit Cavalcade 2015.