The RCFS journal awards are presented annually at SFS Cavalcade North America.
Best Paper Award
2022, $10,000
“Wages and Firm Performance: Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis”
Paige Ouimet and Elena Simintzi
2021, $10,000
“How Do Laws and Institutions Affect Recovery Rates for Collateral?”
Hans Degryse, Vasso Ioannidou, José María Liberti, and Jason Sturgess
2020, $10,000
“Deposit Insurance, Bank Risk-Taking, and Failures: Evidence from Early Twentieth-Century State Deposit Insurance Systems”
Felipe Aldunate
2019, $20,000
“Within-Bank Spillovers of Real Estate Shocks”
Vicente Cuñat, Dragana Cvijanović, and Kathy Yuan
2018, $20,000
“Have Instrumental Variables Brought Us Closer to the Truth”
Wei Jiang
2017, $10,000
“Spillovers in Local Banking Markets”
Mark J. Garmaise and Gabriel Natividad
2016, $10,000
“Do Consumers Choose the Right Credit Contracts?”
Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Chunlin Liu, and Nicholas S. Souleles
2015, $10,000
“Is the Stock Market Just a Side Show? Evidence from a Structural Reform”
Murillo Campello, Rafael P. Ribas, and Albert Y. Wang
2014, $10,000
“Bank Bailout Menus”
Sudipto Bhattacharya and Kjell G. Nyborg
2013, $10,000, sponsored by Harley Lippman and the Society for Financial Studies
“Negotiating with Labor under Financial Distress”
Efraim Benmelech, Nittai K. Bergman, and Ricardo J. Enriquez
Referee of the Year Award
2022, $1000: Jessica Jeffers
2021, $1000: Jack Liebersohn
2020, $1000: Chotibhak Jotikasthira
2019, $1000: Ramin P. Baghai
2018, $1000: Ilona Babenko
2017, $1000: Daniel Ferreira
2016, $1000: Mara Faccio
2015, $1000: Roman Inderst
2014, $1000: Amit Seru
2013, $1000: Philip Bond
Rising Scholar Award
2022 (tie), $2500 each
Michael D. Wittry for “Crisis Poison Pills” by Ofer Eldar and Michael D. Wittry
Yan Xiong for “Information Bias in the Proxy Advisory Market” by Shichao Ma and Yan Xiong
2021, $5000
“Tough Love: The Effects of Debt Contract Design on Firms’ Performance”
Ioannis Spyridopoulos
2020, $5000
“Contingent Capital Trigger Effects: Evidence from Liability Management Exercises”
Boris Vallee
Best Registered Report
2022 (tie), $2500 each
“Does Homeownership Reduce Wealth Disparities for Low-Income and Minority Households?”
Ashleigh Eldemire, Kimberly F Luchtenberg, and Matthew Wynter
“Hidden Preferences: Salary History Ban and Gender Pay Gap”
Jesse Davis, Paige Ouimet, and Xinxin Wang