Recognitions and Achievements
Best Paper Awards
Every year, the Financial Review chooses two articles that exemplify the best of the journal.
The Editors' Choice paper is selected by the Editorial Board.
The Readers' Choice paper is selected by the Financial Review/Eastern Finance Association Participants.
2025 Best Paper Award Winners
2025 Editors' Choice Award Winner:
Do ESG factors influence firm valuations? Evidence from the field
Franck Bancel, Dejan Glavas, G. Andrew Karolyi
2025 Readers' Choice Award Winner:
Dual-Class Shares and Firm Valuation: Market-Wide Evidence from Regulatory Events
Ugur Lel, Jeff Netter, Annette Poulsen, Zhongling Qin
Previous Winners
2024 Editors' Choice Award Winner:
Stock market and the psychological health of investors
Chang Liu and Maoyong Fan
2024 Readers' Choice Award Winner:
Is rising student debt affecting retirement savings? Evidence from the survey of consumer finances
Birzhan Batkeyev, Mine Ertugrul, Karthik Krishnan, and Pinshuo Wang
2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award Winner:
Gonul Colak, University of Sussex Business School
2023 Editors' Choice Award Winner:
The effect of investor service costs on mutual fund performance
George J. Jiang, Tong Yao, and Gulnara R. Zaynutdinova
2023 Readers' Choice Award Winner:
Effect of high-frequency trading on mutual fund performance
Nan Qin and Vijay Singal
2022 Editors' Choice Award Winner:
Do U.S. firms disguise acquisitions to avoid taxes?
Jeremiah Harris and Willian O'Brien
2022 Readers' Choice Award Winner:
Climate change concerns meet return-chasing: Evidence from energy exchange-traded funds.
Viktoriya Lantushenko, Carolin Schellhorn, and Gulnara R. Zaynutdinova