2012 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 2012 Working Paper Competition were announced at ECGI's General Assembly held in Stockholm on 27 April 2012.
The €5,000 Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for the best paper in the Finance series was awarded to:
Marc Goergen, Cardiff University - Cardiff Business School, Noel O’Sullivan and Geoff Wood, University of Sheffield, for their paper:
Private Equity Takeovers and Employment in the UK: some Empirical Evidence
ECGI Finance Working Paper No. 310/2011
The €5,000 The Allen & Overy Law Prize for the best paper in the Law series was awarded to:
John Armour and Wolf-Georg Ringe from the University of Oxford and ECGI, for their paper:
European Company Law 1999-2010: Renaissance and Crisis
ECGI Law Working Paper No. 175/2011
