European Financial Management Association
2014 Annual Meetings
June 25-28, 2014
Rome, ITALY


EFMA 2014 Conference Awards


EFMA CONFERENCE BEST PAPER AWARD ($2,000)
EDA ORHUN Zayed University
“Two-Sided Information Dissemination in Takeovers: Disclosure and Media”




LARRY LANG CORPORATE FINANCE BEST PAPER AWARD ($2,000)
J. CARR BETTIS (Arizona State University), JOHN BIZJAK (Texas Christian University),
JEFFREY COLES (Arizona State University), and SWAMINATHAN KALPATHY(Texas Christian University)

“Performance-Vesting Provisions in Executive Compensation”




GLOBAL ASSOCIATION OF RISK PROFESSIONALS (GARP) RISK MANAGEMENT AWARD ($2,500)
HAITAO LI (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business), TAO LI (City University of Hong Kong), and XUEWEI YANG (Nanjing University)

“A Rating-Based Sovereign Credit Risk Model: Theory and Evidence”




JOHN A. DOUKAS Ph.D. BEST PAPER AWARD ($2,000)
GERARDO MANZO, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

“Political Uncertainty, Credit Risk Premium and Default Risk”

ABBY KIM, University of Utah

“Does Futures Speculation Destabilize Commodity Markets?”




NYSE EURONEXT CAPITAL MARKETS BEST PAPER AWARD (€1,500)

WARREN BAILEY( Cornell University), LIN ZHENG (City College of New York), and YINGGANG ZHOU (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

“What Makes the VIX Tick?”