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
The ''Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis'' is a peer-reviewed bimonthly academic journal published by the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in cooperation with the W. P. Carey School of Business at ...
'' (JFQA) which has made the most important contribution to
financial economics
Financial economics, also known as finance, is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on ''both sides'' of a trade". William F. Sharpe"Financia ...
. 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 conside ...
and winner of the 1990
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...
, 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
This list of economics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for economics. The list is organized by region and country of the sponsoring organization, but awards may be given to economists from other countries.
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Notes & References
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