2009 Working Paper Prizes
With the generous support of Aberdeen Standard Investments and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, the ECGI awards annual prizes for the best papers published in the ECGI Finance and Law Working Paper series.
Past sponsors include Allen & Overy (2008 -2018), De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek (2005-2008) and Egon Zehnder International (2005-2008).
The winners of the two prizes in the 2009 Working Paper Competition were announced at ECGI's General Assembly held in Paris on 17 April 2009.
The €5,000 Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for the best paper in the Finance series was awarded to:
Xavier Giroud, New York University, Holger Mueller, New York University, CEPR and ECGI, for their paper:
Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition, and Equity Prices
ECGI Finance Working Paper No. 219/2008
The €5,000 ECGI Law Prize, sponsored by the ECGI, for the best paper in the Law Series was awarded to:
John Armour, University of Oxford and ECGI, Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge and ECGI, Prabirjit Sarkar, Jadavpur University, Mathias Siems, University of East Anglia, Ajit Singh, University of Cambridge for their paper:
ECGI Law Working Paper No. 108/2008
🏆 "Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition, and Equity Prices"
By Xavier Giroud and Holger Mueller
🏆 "Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis"
By John Armour, Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar, Mathias Siems and Ajit Singh
Simon Deakin
John Armour
