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Best PhD Student Paper ($2,000)

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"Initiation of Merger and Acquisition Negotiation with Two-Sided Private Information" by Zhe Wang from Stanford University and Yi Chen from Yale UniversityL-R: Zhe Wang, Scott Hendry - Bank of Canada and Vikas Mehrotra - 2015 Program Chair

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Best Paper on Derivatives ($2,000)

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Conference Paper Prizes 2015
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"Transparency Regime Initiative and Liquidity in the CDS Market" by Laurence Lescourret from ESSEC and Andras Fulop from ESSECL-R: Vikas Mehrotra - 2015 Program Chair, Laurence Lescourret - ESSEC and Pascal Francois - Director of IFSID

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Best Paper on Market Microstructure ($2,000)

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"Trading in Fragmented Markets" by Markus Baldauf from Stanford University and Joshua Mollner from Stanford UniversityL-R: Vikas Mehrotra - 2015 Program Chair and Markus Baldauf - Stanford University

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Best Paper on Empirical Finance ($2,000)

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"Informed Options Trading Prior to M and A Announcements: Insider Trading?" by Patrick Augustin from McGill University, Menachem Brenner from NYU and Marti Subrahmanyam from NYUL-R: Vikas Mehrotra - 2015 Program Chair and Patrick Augustin - McGill University

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PhD Student Registration Fee Grants (2 awards, each worth up to $350)

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