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Household Finance - Best PhD Student Paper Prize

28 Apr 2017

Household Finance Network conferences and workshops feature presentations by doctoral students, in addition to regular paper presentations. In 2017, the PhD Student Paper Prize was launched, which carries a modest financial component. The prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the conference that is solely authored by PhD students (or was substantially written during the candidates' doctoral studies). Winners are selected by the Steering Committee.

2023

Yasmine Van Der Straten

PhD Candidate in Finance Tinbergen Institute; PhD Candidate in Finance University Of Amsterdam

Previous Prize Winners

The 2023 prize was awarded to Yasmine van der Straten, PhD Candidate in Finance at the University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute and visiting scholar at De Nederlandsche Bank, for her paper "Flooded House or Underwater Mortgage? The Implications of Climate Change and Adaptation on Housing, Income & Wealth".
The 2022 prize was awarded to Menaka Hampole, PhD Candidate at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, for her paper "Student Debt and Labor Market Trajectories".
The 2021 prize was awarded to Kim Fe Cramer, PhD student at Columbia University, for her paper "Bank Presence and Health";  Alexandru Barbu", PhD student at London Business School, for his paper "Ex-Post Loss Sharing in Consumer Financial Markets", and Lu Liu, PhD student at Imperial College for her paper "The Demand for Long-Term Mortgage Contracts and the Role of Collateral".
The 2020 prize was awarded to Pierre Mabille, Assistant Professor of Finance at INSEAD, for his paper "The Missing Home Buyers: Regional Heterogeneity and Credit Contractions".
The prize for the 2019 Rhodes Conference was awarded to Rory McGee (UCL) for his paper "Savings after Retirement: Homeownership, Preferences or Risks?".
The prize for the Lund Workshop in 2019 was awarded to Erkki Vihriälä, DPhil student at the University of Oxford, for his paper "Untangling the credit card debt puzzle - persistence, reaction to cheap liquidity and intra-household optimization".
The recipient of the Prize at the 2018 Conference in Sicily, Claudia Robles-Garcia of the London School of Economics, has been appointed Assistant Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Stephanie Johnson of Northwestern University, currently an assistant professor at Rice University, received the prize for the London Workshop in 2018.
Julio Galvez of CEMFI, currently a research economist at the Bank of Spain, was awarded the prize for the 2017 Conference in Sardinia.
The first CEPR-TFI prize winner, Matteo Benetton of the London School of Economics, was given the prize for the Copenhagen workshop in 2017 and is now an assistant professor at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkеley.