2015 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 2015 Working Paper Competition were announced at ECGI's General Assembly held in Oslo on 8 May 2015.
The €5,000 Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for the best paper in the Finance series was awarded to:
Alexander Borisov, University of Cincinnati, Eitan Goldman, Indiana University and ECGI, and Nandini Gupta, Indiana University for their paper:
The Corporate Value of (Corrupt) Lobbying
ECGI Finance Working Paper No. 423/2014
The €5,000 The Allen & Overy Law Prize for the best paper in the Law series was awarded to:
Mark Roe, Harvard University and ECGI for his paper:
Structural Corporate Degradation Due to Too-Big-to-Fail Finance
ECGI Law Working Paper No. 253/2014