Announcing the Winners of the JFQA 2023 William F. Sharpe Best Paper Award

The William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research recognizes researchers who, through their articles published in the JFQA, have most contributed to our understanding of important areas of financial economics. Nominees for the Sharpe Award are chosen by a vote of JFQA readers and Associate Editors; the winners, who receive a $5,000 cash prize, are selected by the Managing Editors.

The winners of the Sharpe Award for JFQA papers published in 2023 are:

Joseph Engelberg, University of California
R. David McLean, Georgetown University
Jeffrey Pontiff, Boston College
Matthew C. Ringgenberg, University of Utah

For their article:

"Do Cross-Sectional Predictors Contain Systematic Information?", May 2023, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 1172-1201

AND

Andrew Y. Chen, Federal Reserve Board Research and Statistics
Mihail Velikov, Pennsylvania State University

For their article:

"Zeroing In on the Expected Returns of Anomalies", May 2023, Volume 58, No. 3, pp. 968-1004

Congratulations to Joseph, David, Jeffrey, Matthew, Andrew and Mihail for their accomplishments