NFA Conference 2014
The 26th Annual NFA Conference was held in the Ottawa Convention Centre (OCC), which has sparkling views of Parliament Hill.
Organized by Gordon Sick, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. Plenary Address by Anil Shivdasani, University of North Carolina. PhD Program Sessions: Wayne Ferson, University of Southern California and Nadia Massoud, University of Melbourne.
NFA 2014 Program Chair Report by Gordon Sick
Anil Shivdasani, Plenary Lecture
Wachovia Distinguished Professor of Finance
Kenan-Flagler Business School
University of North Carolina
Gordon Sick, Program Chair
Professor of Finance
Haskayne School of Business
University of Calgary
Gordon is the Vice President of the Northern Finance Association. Please put his email address of chair@
Wayne Ferson, PhD Session Chair
Ivadelle and Theodore Johnson Chair in Banking and Finance
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
Executive Editor of the Review of Asset Pricing Studies
Research Associate of the NBER
Nadia Massoud, PhD Session Chair
Ian Potter Chair Professor of Finance
Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
NFA 2014 Sponsors and Exhibitors
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsor
Silver Sponsor
Bronze Sponsor
Bronze Sponsor
Exhibitors
NFA 2014 Paper Awards
Best Paper $2000
Do IPO Underwriters Collude?
Fangjian Fu, Singapore Management University
Evgeny Lyandres, Boston University
Presented by Gordon Sick to Evgeny Lyandres
Best Paper on Derivatives $2000
Credit Default Swaps and Corporate Cash Holdings
Marti Subrahmanyam, New York University
Dragon Tang, University of Hong Kong
Sarah Wang, Warwick Business School
Presented by Martin Boyer to Dragon Tang
Best Empirical Paper $1000
Model Disagreement and Economic Outlook
Daniel Andrei, UCLA
Bruce Carlin, UCLA
Michael Hasler, University of Toronto
Presented by Stephanie Schneider to Daniel Andrei
Best Paper on Business Valuation $1000
Small Growth and Distress Anomalies: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Kyung Shim, University of New South Wales
Harjoat Bhamra, Imperial College
Presented by Gordon Sick to Kyung Shim
Best Student Papers $1000
Is Idiosyncratic Volatility Risk Priced? Evidence from the Physical and Risk-Neutral Distributions
Ali Boloorforoosh
Concordia University
Presented to Ali Boloorforoosh by Wayne Ferson and Gordon Sick
