2022
Bing Han, University of Toronto
David Hirshleifer, University of Southern California
Johan Walden, University of California, Berkeley
“Social Transmission Bias and Investor Behavior”
February 2022, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 390–412

2021
Jaewon Choi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Yonsei University
Dirk Hackbarth, Boston University Questrom School of Business, CEPR, and ECGI
Josef Zechner, Vienna University of Economics and Business
“Granularity of Corporate Debt”
June 2021, Vol. 56. No. 4, pp. 1127–1162 

2020
David De Angelis, Rice University 
Yaniv Grinstein, IDC Herzliya, Cornell University, ECGI

“Relative Performance Evaluation in CEO Compensation: A Talent-Retention Explanation”
November 2020, Vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 2099–2123

2019
Alberto Manconi, Bocconi University
Urs Peyer, INSEAD
Theo Vermaelen, INSEAD
“Are Buybacks Good for Long-Term Shareholder Value? Evidence from Buybacks around the World”
October 2019, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 1899–1935

2018
Mara Faccio, Purdue University
Jin Xu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
“Taxes, Capital Structure Choices, and Equity Value”
June 2018, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 967–995

and

Gerard Hoberg, University of Southern California
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College
“Text-Based Industry Momentum”
Dec. 2018, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 2355—2388

2017
Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame
Dayong Huang, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Hayong Yun, Michigan State University
“Industrial Electricity Usage and Stock Returns”
Feb. 2017, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 37–69

2016
David Easley, Cornell University
Maureen O’Hara, Cornell University
Liyan Yang, University of Toronto
“Differential Access to Price Information in Financial Markets”
Aug. 2016,  Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 1071–1110

2015
Mara Faccio, Purdue University
Jin Xu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
“Taxes and Capital Structure”
June 2015, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 277–300

2014
Francis A. Longstaff, University of California at Los Angeles
Brett W. Myers, Texas Tech University
“How Does the Market Value Toxic Assets?”
April 2014, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 297–319

2013
Xiaohui Gao, University of Maryland
Jay R. Ritter, University of Florida
Zhongyan Zhu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Where Have All the IPOs Gone?”
December 2013, Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 1663–1692

2012
Geert Bekaert, Columbia University
Robert J. Hodrick, Columbia University
Xiaoyan Zhang, Purdue University
“Aggregate Idiosyncratic Volatility”
December 2012, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 1155–1185

2011
Jie Cai, Drexel University
Ralph A. Walkling, Drexel University
“Shareholders’ Say on Pay: Does It Create Value?”
April 2011, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 299–339

2010
Malcolm Baker, Harvard University
Lubomir Litov, Washington University in St. Louis
Jessica A. Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University
“Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence from Their Trades Prior to Earnings Announcements”
October 2010, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 1111–1131

2009
Rongbing Huang, Kennesaw State University
Jay R. Ritter, University of Florida
“Testing Theories of Capital Structure and Estimating the Speed of Adjustment”
April 2009, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 237–271

2008
Jonathan M. Karpoff, University of Washington
D. Scott Lee, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Gerald S. Martin, American University
“The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Books”
September 2008, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 581–612

2007
Francesca Carrieri, McGill University
Vihang Errunza, McGill University
Ked Hogan, Barclays Global Investors
“Characterizing World Market Integration through Time”
December 2007, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 915–940

2006
Hernan Ortiz-Molina, University of British Columbia
“Top Management Incentives and the Pricing of Corporate Public Debt”
June 2006, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 317–340

2005
Charu G. Raheja, TriageLogic Management
“Determinants of Board Size and Composition: A Theory of Corporate Boards”
June 2005, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 283–306

2004
Alan J. Ziobrowski, Georgia State University
Ping Cheng, Florida Atlantic University
James W. Boyd, Kent State University
Brigitte J. Ziobrowski, Augusta State University
“Abnormal Returns from the Common Stock Investments of the U.S. Senate”
December 2004, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 661–676

2003
Magnus Dahlquist, Stockholm Institute for Financial Research
Lee Pinkowitz, Georgetown University
René M. Stulz, Ohio State University
Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University
“Corporate Governance and the Home Bias”
March 2003, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 87–110

2002
Diane Del Guercio, University of Oregon
Paula A. Tkac, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
“The Determinants of the Flow of Funds of Managed Portfolios: Mutual Funds vs. Pension Funds”
December 2002, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 523–557

2001
Jonathan Clarke, Georgia Institute of Technology
Craig Dunbar, University of Western Ontario
Kathleen M. Kahle, University of Pittsburgh
“Long-Run Performance and Insider Trading in Completed and Canceled Seasoned Equity Offerings”
December 2001, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 415–430

2000
Stephen R. Foerster, University of Western Ontario
G. Andrew Karolyi, Ohio State University
“The Long-Run Performance of Global Equity Offerings”
December 2000, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 499–528
and
Hersh Shefrin, Santa Clara University
Meir Statman, Santa Clara University
“Behavioral Portfolio Theory”
June 2000, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 127–151

1999
Paula A. Tkac, University of Notre Dame
“A Trading Volume Benchmark: Theory and Evidence”
March 1999, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 89–114

Honorable mention for the Sharpe Award went to
Stephen A. Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Adding Risks: Samuelson’s Fallacy of Large Numbers Revisited”
September 1999, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 323–339
and
William N. Goetzmann, Yale University
Philippe Jorion, University of California, Irvine
“Re-Emerging Markets”
March 1999, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 1–32