Brattle Prize
The Brattle Prize is an annual prize given to authors with the best corporate finance research papers published in the Journal of Finance.
Details
Each year the associate editors of the Journal of Finance award five papers for excellence. The two best finance papers in the subfield of corporate finance and the three best other papers from among all those papers that appeared in the first five issues of that year and in the December issue from the previous year are awarded prizes at the annual American Finance Association in January of the following year. Currently the Brattle prizes are $10,000 for first place and $5,000 for second, but these amounts may change from time to time. Although the prize is awarded by the Brattle Group the administration of the Brattle Prize is the responsibility of the Editor of The Journal of Finance and is carried out in conjunction with the selection of the Smith Breeden Prizes. Associate Editors vote for the best two corporate finance papers (for the Brattle Prizes) and the best three other papers (for the Smith-Breeden Prizes). The papers receiving the most votes in their categories receive the prizes; however, a paper may not win in both categories.[1]
The Journal of Finance is one of the most prestigious and highly cited journals in finance and economics. Each year hundreds of papers are submitted for publication. In 2006, there were 1239 submissions (1037 new manuscripts), 86 articles published, and 8 Brattle Prize nominees from which one first place winning paper and two second place distinguished papers were chosen.[2]
Winners
Table of winning papers[3]
| Paper | Author(s) | Year | Issue |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Were the Good Old Days That Good? Changes in Managerial Stock Ownership Since the Great Depression" | Clifford G. Holderness, Randall S. Kroszner, and Dennis P.Sheehan | 1999 | April 1999 |
| "How Big Are the Tax Benefits of Debt?" | John R. Graham | 2000 | October 2000 |
| "Conflicts of Interest and Market Illiquidity in Bankruptcy Auctions: Theory and Tests" | Per Strömberg | 2001 | December 2000 |
| "Market Timing and Capital Structure" | Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler | 2002 | February 2002 |
| "Effects of Corporate Diversification on Productivity" | Antoinette Schoar | 2003 | December 2002 |
| "Diversification Discount or Premium? New Evidence from the Business Information Tracking Series" | Belen Villalonga | 2004 | April 2004 |
| "Debt Dynamics" | Christopher A. Hennessy and Toni M. Whited | 2005 | June 2005 |
| "Investment and Financing Constraints: Evidence from the Funding of Corporate Pension Plans" | Joshua D. Rauh | 2006 | February 2006 |
| "Do Tests of Capital Structure Theory Mean What They Say?" | Ilya A. Strebulaev | 2007 | August 2007 |
| "The Risk-Adjusted Cost of Financial Distress" | Heitor Almeida and Thomas Philippon | 2008 | December 2007 |
| "Why Are Buyouts Levered? The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds" | Ulf Axelson, Per Strömberg, and Michael S. Weisbach | 2009 | August 2009 |
| "Information and Incentives Inside the Firm: Evidence from Loan Officer Rotation" | Andrew Hertzberg, José M. Liberti, and Daniel Paravisini | 2010 | June 2010 |
| "Bankruptcy and Collateral Channel" | Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman | 2011 | April 2011 |
| "Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases, and Payday Borrowing" | Marianne Bertrand and Adair Morse | 2012 | December 2012 |
Notes
- ↑ "Prizes and Awards". American Finance Association. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- ↑ Harvey, Cam (2007-03-13). "Journal of Finance Editor's Report". American Finance Association. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- ↑ "Brattle Group Prize Winners since 1999". American Finance Association. Retrieved 12 January 2013.