The winners of the three prizes in the
2006 Working Paper Competition were announced at ECGI's General
Assembly held at ETH Zurich on 9 March 2006.
The Egon Zehnder International
Prize
The €5,000 prize for the best paper in either series
on company boards and their role in corporate governance
is sponsored by the international executive search firm,
Egon
Zehnder International.
The authors
of this paper are Renee
Adams, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance
and SITE, Stockholm School of Economics and an ECGI Research
Associate, and Daniel
Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Finance, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa and an ECGI Research Associate
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
authors of these papers are Professor
Patrick Bolton, John H Scully '66 Professor of
Finance & Economics, Princeton University and an ECGI
Fellow, José Scheinkman, Theodore
A Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University and
Wei Xiong, Assistant Professor of Economics
Princeton University
The
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize
The
€5,000 prize for the best paper in the Law series is
sponsored by the independent international law firm, De
Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
The
author of this paper is Professor
Ronald Gilson, Charles J. Meyers Professor of
Law and Business Stanford Law School and Marc and Eva Stern
Professor of Law and Business, Columbia U. School of Law and
an ECGI Fellow
For
further details of these prestigious prizes, see:
