2011 Prize winners
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 2011 Working Paper Competition were announced at ECGI's General Assembly held in Amsterdam on 8 April 2011.
The €5,000 Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for the best paper in the Finance series was awarded to:
Ing-Haw Cheng, University of Michigan (Ross), Harrison Hong, Princeton University and NBER, Jose Scheinkman, Princeton University and NBER, for their paper:
Yesterday’s Heroes: Compensation and Creative Risk-Taking
ECGI Finance Working Paper No. 285/2010
The €5,000 The Allen & Overy Law Prize for the best paper in the Law series was awarded to:
Christian Leuz, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, NBER and ECGI, for his paper:
Different Approaches to Corporate Reporting Regulation: How Jurisdictions Differ and Why
ECGI Law Working Paper No. 156/2010