Student Best Paper Award

2023 Winner(s)

Winning material: Asset-Pricing Factors with Economic Targets

Purpose of the Award

The objectives of the section are to provide a continuing, specialized focus within INFORMS on the topic of financial services, with the aim of identifying current and potential problems and contributions to their solutions; to lead in the development, dissemination, and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research and technologies in the area of finance and financial services; and to promote high professional standards and integrity in all work done in the field.

Application Process

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Past Awardees

2023
Winner(s)
2022
Winner(s)
Lewen Zheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Second Place
Ling Qin, National University of Singapore
Third Place
Jinghai He, UC Berkeley
2021
Winner(s)
Ruizhe Jia, Columbia University
2020
Winner(s)
 Michael Mark  , Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne
Honorable Mention
Rohit Arora  , University of Texas
2019
First Place
Honorable Mention
2018
First Place
Honorable Mention
2017
First Place
Second Place
2016
First Place
Second Place
2015
First Place
Second Place
Honorable Mention
2014
First Place
Xin Li, Columbia University
Second Place
Honorable Mention
Yang Dong, Lehigh University
2013
First Place
Jingnan Chen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Second Place
Xiaobo Li, National University of Singapore
Honorable Mention
2012
First Place
Second Place
2011
First Place
Mehmet Saglam, Columbia Business School
Second Place
Haowen Zhong, Columbia University
2010
First Place
Michael Padilla, Stanford University
Second Place
Xiangwei Wan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Honorable Mention
Waraporn Tongprasit, Stanford University
2009
First Place
Ming Liu, Northwestern University
Second Place
Romain Deguest, Columbia University
Yu Hang Kan, Columbia University
2007
First Place
Premal Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second Place
Ning Cai, Columbia University
Xin Zhang, University of Tennessee
Honorable Mention
Haleh Valian, Rutgers University
Mehmet Saglam, Columbia Business School
2006
First Place
Amit Bhandari, Northwestern University
Second Place
Ashish Jain, Columbia Business School
Nan Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2005
First Place
James A. Primbs, Stanford University
Peter J. Meindl , Stanford University
Second Place
I-Hsuan Chiang, Boston College
Zhoujuan Zhang, Princeton University
2004
First Place
Lepeng Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Second Place
Aytac Ilhan, The University of Oxford
Xiaodong Xu, Northwestern University
Honorable Mention
Tridib Bandyopadhyay, University of Texas at Dallas