2024 Vernon L. Smith Young Talent Award

Winners

Müge Süer (Halle (Saale), Germany)

Afroza Alam

Hassan Andrabi

Robert Woods

Konstantinos Ioannidis (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

In 2024, the Society for Experimental Finance awarded two Vernon L. Smith Young Talent Awards for the best research proposals in finance using experimental methodology. Each award comes with $4,000 for running experiments, generously sponsored by Chapman University.

The panel members, Camelia Kuhnen (University of South Carolina), Nobuyuki Hanaki (Osaka University), Christine Laudenbach (Goethe University), and Stefan Palan (University of Graz), assessed 13 proposals and selected two winners:

Müge Süer, Alexander Reifschneider and Alam Afroza (all IWH Halle, Germany)
“The Effect of Anticipated Discrimination on Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Finance”

Hassan Andrabi (University of Melbourne), Robert Woods and Konstantinos Ioannidis (both Cambridge University)
“Markets or Patents? A Comparative Study on Incentivising Collective Innovation”

Congratulations to the winners!