2015 Prize winners

2015 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).

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    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 Standard Life Investments Finance Prize

    The €5,000 prize for the best paper in the Finance series is sponsored by the leading investment company, Standard Life Investments.

    The winning paper:

    The Corporate Value of (Corrupt) Lobbying

    ECGI Finance Working Paper No. 423/2014

    The authors of this paper are Alexander Borisov, University of Cincinnati, Eitan Goldman, Indiana University and ECGI, and Nandini Gupta, Indiana University

     

    The Allen & Overy Law Prize              

    The €5,000 prize for the best paper in the Law series is sponsored by the international legal practice, Allen & Overy.

    The winning paper:

    Structural Corporate Degradation Due to Too-Big-to-Fail Finance

    ECGI Law Working Paper No. 253/2014

    The author of this paper is Mark Roe, Harvard University and ECGI

     

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