Awards

Name of Faculty	Name of Award
Zhang Weina	2nd prize, Best Paper Award in Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC) Annual Conference 2009 Paper title: 'Effective Corporate Governance in Chinese Listed Real Estate Firms', co-authored with Gang-Zhi Fan and Yi Wan
Qian Wenlan	Best Paper Award, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association International Conference and Asian Real Estate Society Conference 2009 Paper title: 'Agent Heterogeneity and Housing Market Dynamics'
Lam Swee Sum	Vernon Zimmerman Best Paper Award, 20th Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues Paper title: 'Are Earnings Surprises Related to Earnings Restatements?', co-authored with Assoc Prof Ho Yew Kee and undergraduate student Low Kek Seng.
Allaudeen Hameed & Kang Wenjin	Best Paper Award, China International Finance Conference 2008 Paper title: 'Stock Price Synchronicity and Liquidity', co-authored with Prof Kalok Chan (HKUST)
Anand Srinivasan	Best Paper Award, International Conference on Business and Finance 2008 FAMA-DFA Best Paper Award (2nd place), published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2007 Paper title: “Does Industry wide distress affect defaulted firms? Evidence from creditor recoveries”, co-authored with Prof Viral Acharya (London Business School) and Dr Sreedhar Bharath (University of Michigan).

 

Name of Student	Name of Award
Li Yan	1st place, Best Dissertation Proposal Award in Financial Markets & Institutions sponsored by SIFMA 2008 Paper title: 'Lending Relationships During Borrower Distress and Bankruptcy'