Annual Meeting Prizes

EFA 2025 Best Conference Paper Prize (€3,000)

The Best Conference Paper Prize is the highest distinction awarded to an academic paper presented during the EFA 2025 Annual Meeting.

The Engelbert Dockner Memorial Prize for the Best Paper by Young Researchers (€3,000)

From this year on the EFA will award the best paper presented at the conference by a young researcher with a prize in memory of Engelbert Dockner (EFA President in 2016). The prize will be granted annually for the next five years (2020-2025). The winning  paper will be chosen among the papers written by a young researcher(s) and accepted for presentation at the EFA Annual Meeting. ‘Young researcher’, is defined as a PhD student or a young scholar or Professor who has completed his/her degree not more than one year prior to the respective EFA Annual Meeting. To be eligible, papers should be accepted to the EFA Annual Meeting.

Review of Finance Awards

2025 Pagano and Zechner Award (€5,000)

The Pagano and Zechner Prize will be awarded at the EFA 2025 conference to the best non-investment paper published in the journal of the European Finance Association, the Review of Finance. The prize-winning paper is selected by the Editorial Board of the journal.

2025 IQAM Best Paper Prize (€5,000)

The 2025 IQAM Best Paper Prize will be awarded at the EFA Annual Meeting for the best paper on investment published in the journal of the European Finance Association, the Review of Finance. The prize-winning paper is selected by the Editorial Board of the journal.

2025 Review of Finance Distinguished Referee Awards

The Review of Finance Distinguished Referee Awards will be presented at the EFA 2025 Annual Meeting to three scholars who have provided outstanding refereeing services to the Review of Finance, as voted by the Editors of the journal.