2010 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 2010 Working Paper Competition were announced at ECGI's General Assembly held in Luxembourg on 6 May 2010.
The €5,000 Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for the best paper in the Finance series was awarded to:
Harald Hau, INSEAD and Marcel Thum, TU Dresden, Ifo Dresden and CESifo. for their paper:
Subprime Crisis and Board (In-)Competence: Private vs. Public Banks in Germany
ECGI Finance Working Paper No. 247/2009
The €5,000 The Allen & Overy Law Prize for the best paper in the Law series was awarded to:
John Armour from the University of Oxford, Simon Deakin and Priya Lele from the University of Cambridge, and Mathias Siems from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of Cambridge for their paper:
ECGI Law Working Paper No. 129/2009
🏆 "Subprime Crisis and Board (In-)Competence: Private vs. Public Banks in Germany"
By Harald Hau, Marcel Thum
🏆 "How Do Legal Rules Evolve? Evidence From a Cross-Country Comparison of Shareholder, Creditor and Worker Protection"
By John Armour, Simon Deakin, Priya Lele and Mathias Siems