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We are pleased to announce the winners of the best paper awards for the 36th Asian Finance Association Annual Conference:

The Asian Finance Association Best Paper Award:

“Information Transmission in Stock and Bond Markets” by
Allaudeen Hameed (National University of Singapore)
Sheridan Titman (University of Texas at Austin)
Jason Wei (University of Toronto)
Huiping Zhang (James Cook University Singapore)

 

“The Real Effect of Sociopolitical Racial/Ethnic Animus: Mutual Fund Manager Performance During AAPI Hate” by
Vikas Agarwal (Georgia State University)
Wei Jiang (Emory University)
Yuchen Luo (The University of Arkansas)
Hong Zou (The University of Hong Kong)

 

“Scientific Directors, Innovation and Firm Value” by
Ronald W. Masulis (University of New South Wales)
Elvira Sojli (University of New South Wales)
Wing Wah Tham (University of New South Wales)
Yufeng Yao (University of New South Wales)

 

The International Review of Finance Best Paper Award:

“AI-Powered Trading, Algorithmic Collusion, and Price Efficiency” by
Winston Wei Dou (University of Pennsylvania)
Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania)
Yan Ji (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

 

The Pacific Basin Finance Journal Best Paper Award:

“Preferences for Dividends and Stock Returns around the World” by
Allaudeen Hameed (National University of Singapore)
Jing Xie (University of Macau)
Yuxiang Zhong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

 

The Wharton Research Data Services Best Paper Award:

“The Stock-Bond Correlation: A Tale of Two Days” by
Grace Xing Hu (Tsinghua University)
Zhao Jin (Central University of Finance and Economics)
Jun Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

 

The four papers listed below are finalists of the best paper awards:

"The Fabric of Capital in Private Equity: How Network Affects LP Investments and Returns" by
Yonghao Zhai (Singapore Management University)
Hong Zhang (Singapore Management University)

"Fundamental Value and Bubbles: Stocks, Scams and Cryptocurrencies" by
Rustam Ibragimov (Imperial College London)
Christine Parlour (University of California, Berkeley)
Johan Walden (University of California, Berkeley)

"The Monitoring Role of Common Ownership along the Supply Chain: Evidence from Shareholder Proposals Removing Antitakeover Provisions" by
Tao Chen (Nanyang Technological University)
Yuzi Chen (Central University of Finance and Economics)
Jun-Koo Kang (Nanyang Technological University)
Fangbo Si (Jinan University)

"The Tokenomics of Staking" by
Lin William Cong (Cornell University)
Zhiheng He (Tsinghua University)
Ke Tang (Tsinghua University)