The William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research is an award given each year to the author of the research article published in the ''
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis'' (JFQA) which has made the most important contribution to
financial economics. The award is dedicated to
William F. Sharpe, a financial economist at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
and winner of the 1990
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and was established 1999. It is affirmed with a $5000 reward financed donated by the Litzenberger Family Foundation, Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, William Alberts, Norman Metcalfe, and the University of Washington School of Business Administration, among others. Nominees for the William F. Sharpe Award are voted for by JFQA readers and the journal's associate editors, and the managing editors of the journal select a winner among the nominees.
List of William F. Sharpe Award winners
The following table displays a list of the winners of the William F. Sharpe Award along with information on the article for which it was received.
List of William F. Sharpe Award winners on the award's webpage.
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See also
* List of economics awards
Notes & References
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