WFA 2026 - Best Paper Awards
- The USC Marshall School of Business Trefftzs Award For the Best Student Paper
Yevhenii Usenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Charles River Associates Award For the Best Paper on Corporate Finance
Andras Danis, Central European University
Evgeny Gushchin, Central European University
Beate Thies, University of Vienna
- Elsevier Award For the Best Paper on Financial Institutions
Matteo Benetton, University of California-Berkeley
Benjamin Hebert, Stanford University
Timothy McQuade, University of California-Berkeley
- NASDAQ Award For the Best Paper on Asset Pricing
Samuel Hartzmark, Boston College
Abigail Sussman, University of Chicago
- Two Sigma Award For the Best Paper on Investment Management
Hannah Unterberg, University of California-Irvine
- Wharton School - WRDS Award For the Best Empirical Finance Paper
Julia Selgrad, University of Chicago
Kerry Siani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- The Brattle Group Ph.D. Candidate Awards For Outstanding Research
List of Student Papers