Working Paper Prizes and Sponsors
ECGI awards two annual prizes for the best papers published in the ECGI Finance and Law Working Paper series. The prizes are selected by the ECGI Editorial Boards.
ECGI Working Paper Series Sponsor
(since 2026)
ECGI is grateful to its past sponsors for their generous support in recognising the value of important research. Below you can browse the winning papers and presentations or you can select specific years at the top of this page.
2018 - 2025
2022 - 2024
2005 - 2020
2008 - 2018
2005 - 2008
2005 - 2008
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Ownership and Trust - A corporate law framework for board decision-making in the age of AI
Goethe University/House of Finance, Frankfurt, Germany -
The Evolution of the Market for Corporate Control
London School of Economics and Political Science
Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
HEC Paris -
ESG: A Panacea for Market Power?
University of Washington
University of Washington -
The (Geo)Politics of Controlling Shareholders
Stanford Law School -
Revisiting the Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership
IESE Business School, University of Navarra
IESE Business School -
No Need for Asia to be Woke: Contextualizing Anglo-America’s “Discovery” of Corporate Purpose
Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law -
Creating Controversy in Proxy Voting Advice
Boston College, Carroll School of Management
Boston College -
The Corporate Governance Machine
Columbia Law School
University of Pennsylvania Law School -
Risk Mitigating versus Risk Shifting: Evidence from Banks Security Trading in Crises
Imperial College London/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Luiss University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, EIEF and Barcelona GSE
Bank of ItalyAnd more (...)
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The Global Diffusion of Stewardship Codes
The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
European University Institute -
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The Grip of Nationalism on Corporate Law
Harvard Law School -
Index Funds and the Future of Corporate Governance: Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Harvard Law School
Boston University School of Law -
Investor Ideology
Imperial College London
University of Florida
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of ManagementAnd more (...)
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Why Do Boards Exist? Governance Design in the Absence of Corporate Law
London School of Economics and Political Science
Norwegian Business School
Copenhagen Business School, Department of Finance -
From Corporate Law to Corporate Governance
Columbia Law School & Stanford Law School -
Board Ancestral Diversity and Firm Performance Volatility
Stockholm School of Economics
Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta -
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Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance: The Value of Corporate Social Responsibility during the Financial Crisis
University of Utah
London Business School
London School of Economics -
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Structural Corporate Degradation Due to Too-Big-to-Fail Finance
Harvard Law School -
Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Risk: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Boston College
Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary -
How are U.S. Family Firms Controlled?
Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University -
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Private Equity Takeovers and Employment in the UK: some Empirical Evidence
IE Business SchoolSchool of Business and Economics, Loughborough University -
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control
New York University School of Law
NYU Law
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Mariassunta Giannetti - Winner of the 2017 ECGI Working Paper Finance Series
Stockholm School of Economics -
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ECGI 2017 Working Paper Prizes (Law & Finance)
Bocconi University, Department of Legal Studies
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles
Columbia Law School & Stanford Law SchoolAnd more (...)
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Intesa Sanpaolo Finance Prize Winner: "ESG: A Panacea for Market Power?"
University of Washington -
ECGI Working Paper Law Series Prize (2017) - Interview with Luca Enriques
Bocconi University, Department of Legal Studies -
Capitalism Revisited Day 2: ECGI 2022 Working Paper Prize Session
Boston College
Boston College, Carroll School of ManagementChester SpattAnd more (...)
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Ronald J Gilson - Winner of the 2017 ECGI Working Paper Law Series
Columbia Law School & Stanford Law School -
Day 3 | The 2023 ECGI Annual Meeting: ECGI Working Paper Law Prize Sessions
Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law -
Session 7: Ownership and Trust: A Corporate Law Framework for Board Decisionmaking in the Age of AI
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles
Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University
Goethe University/House of Finance, Frankfurt, Germany -
ECGI 2016 Working Paper Prizes Law and Finance series
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles
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Allen and OveryAnd more (...)
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“Why Do Boards Exist?” Winner of the best paper in the ECGI Finance Series in 2017
Norwegian Business School -
Session 7: The Evolution of the Market for Corporate Control
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles
Boston College
London School of Economics and Political ScienceAnd more (...)