Faculty Awards

2024

Dr. Burcu Esmer – Poets and Quant’s Best Undergraduate Professors, 2024, 2023-2024
Dr. Burcu Esmer – Wharton Teaching Excellence Reward in Executive MBA Teaching, 2023, 2022-2023
Dr. Burcu Esmer – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award in Undergraduate Teaching, 2024, 2023-2024
Sean Myers – EFA Annual Meeting Best Paper Award, 2024
Sean Myers – Driehaus Center for Behavioral Finance Research Prize, 2024
Sean Myers – 2023 Marshall Blume Prize in Financial Research, 2024
Sean Myers – 2023 Jacobs Levy Center Research Paper Prize for Best Paper, 2024
Dr. Burcu Esmer – Wharton Teaching Excellence Reward in Executive MBA Teaching, 2024, 2023-2024
Winston Wei Dou – Golub Faculty Scholar Award at the Wharton School, 2024-2025
Winston Wei Dou – Best Paper Award, China FinTech Research Conference, 2024
Winston Wei Dou – Wharton Dean’s Research Fund Award, 2024
Winston Wei Dou – IRF Best Paper Award, Asian Finance Association, 2024
Winston Wei Dou – Jacob Gold & Associates Best Paper Prize, ASU Sonoran Winter Conference, 2024
Winston Wei Dou – Best Paper Award, ABFER-JFDS Conference on AI and FinTech, 2024
Winston Wei Dou – Best Discussant Award, LBS Summer Finance Symposium, 2024
Lu Liu – Homer Hoyt Dissertation Award (American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, AREUEA), 2024
Christopher Geczy – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2022-2023
Christopher Geczy – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020-2021
Robert F. Stambaugh – Outstanding Paper, Jacobs-Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research, 2023
Lu Liu – Arthur Warga Award, Best Paper in Fixed Income (SFS Cavalcade), 2023
Winston Wei Dou – Golub Faculty Scholar Award at the Wharton School, 2023-2024
Winston Wei Dou – Best Paper Award, Melbourne Asset Pricing Meeting, 2023
Winston Wei Dou – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award at University of Pennsylvania, 2023-2024
Dr. Burcu Esmer – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award in Undergraduate Teaching, 2023, 2022-2023
Robert F. Stambaugh – Moskowitz Prize, 2022
Itay Goldstein – Provost’s Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring, 2022
Robert F. Stambaugh – Best Paper, Jacobs-Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research, 2022
Winston Wei Dou – Richard A. Crowell Memorial Prize, Second Prize, PanAgora Asset Management, 2022 Description

“Competition Network: Distress Spillovers and Predictable Industry Returns”
Dr. Burcu Esmer – The Honorable Mention for Best Mid-year Meeting Paper, American Accounting Association – FARS (2022), 2022
Robert F. Stambaugh – Fama-DFA Prize (first-place paper, Journal of Financial Economics), 2021
David Wessels – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, The Wharton School, 2018-2024
Sasha Indarte – National Science Foundation Grant (for “The Origins of Serial Sovereign Default”), 2021
Robert F. Stambaugh – AQR Insight Award distinguished paper, 2021
Robert F. Stambaugh – Best Paper, Jacobs-Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research, 2021
Winston Wei Dou – Semi-finalist of FMA Conference Best Paper Award, 2021
Winston Wei Dou – Wharton Dean’s Research Fund Award, 2021
Winston Wei Dou – PwC Finance Forum Best Paper Award, 2021
Winston Wei Dou – Jacobs Levy Center Outstanding Research Paper Prize, 2021
Winston Wei Dou – CFA Institute Asia-Pacific Research Exchange Award (NZFM), 2021
Robert F. Stambaugh – Outstanding Paper, Jacobs Levy Equity Managment Center for Quantitative Financial Research, 2020
Sasha Indarte – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award (for FNCE 611, MBA Corporate Finance), 2020
Sasha Indarte – NBER Small Grants for Household Finance Research (for “Explaining Racial Disparities in Personal Bankruptcy Outcomes”), 2020
Sasha Indarte – Rodney L. White Center Research Grant (for “The Impact of Social Insurance on Household Debt”), 2020
Winston Wei Dou – NASDAQ Award for the Best Paper on Asset Pricing, Western Finance Association, 2020
Winston Wei Dou – Best Paper Award on Asset Pricing, Northern Finance Association, 2020
Winston Wei Dou – AAII Award for the Best Paper on Investments, Midwest Finance Association, 2020
Vincent Glode – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
Jules H. van Binsbergen – DFA Distinguished Paper Prize in the Journal of Finance for Real Anomalies, 2019
Christopher Geczy – Investment for Impact Research Prize, Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2018., 2019
Robert F. Stambaugh – AQR Insight Award honorable mention, 2019
Robert F. Stambaugh – Marshall Blume Prize, 2018
Winston Wei Dou – Best Paper Award, China International Conference in Macroeconomics (CICM), 2019
Vincent Glode – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2019
Dr. Burcu Esmer – Wharton Teaching Excellence Reward in Undergraduate Teaching, 2019, 2017-2018
Donald B. Keim – Investor Responsibility Research Center Award, 2015
Robert F. Stambaugh – QMA Award for Best Paper on Investment Management, Western Finance Association Meetings, 2018
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Jacobs-Levy Equity Management Outstanding Paper Award, 2018
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award Nominee for outstanding teaching, 2018
Jules H. van Binsbergen – “Tough but we will thank you in five years” Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2018
Joseph Gyourko – Wharton Teaching Excellence Reward Recipient, 2018
Christopher Geczy – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2017-2018
Joao F. Gomes – Marshall Blume Prize for Excellence in Financial Research, 2018
Vincent Glode – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2018
Joao F. Gomes – Western Finance Association Award for Best Paper in Investment Management, 2017
David Wessels – Excellence in Teaching Award, WEMBA San Francisco, 2017
Sasha Indarte – Macro Financial Modeling Initiative Dissertation Fellowship, Becker Friedman Institute, 2017
Jules H. van Binsbergen – “Goes above and beyond” Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2017
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award Nominee for outstanding teaching, 2017
Vincent Glode – Finalist for Anvil Award for Outstanding Teaching, Wharton MBA Program, 2017
Nikolai Roussanov – Jacobs-Levy Equity Management Award, 2017
Nikolai Roussanov – AQR Insight Award, 2017
Vincent Glode – Excellence in Teaching Award, Undergraduate Division at the Wharton School, 2017
Winston Wei Dou – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award at University of Pennsylvania, 2017-2018
Winston Wei Dou – Marshall Blume Prize, Rodney L White Center for Financial Research at Wharton, 2017
Robert F. Stambaugh – Best Paper, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research, 2017
Robert F. Stambaugh – Fama-DFA Prize (first-place paper, Journal of Financial Economics), 2016
Michael Roberts – Jensen Prize – First place paper on corporate finance and organizations published in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2016 Description

Best paper on corporate finance and organizations published in the Journal of Financial Economics
Sasha Indarte – Susan Schmidt Bies Prize for Doctoral Student Research on Economics and Public Policy, Northwestern University (for “Bad News Bankers: Underwriter Reputation and Contagion in Pre-1914 Sovereign Debt Markets”), 2016
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award Nominee for outstanding teaching, 2016
Jules H. van Binsbergen – “Tough but we will thank you in five years” Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2016
Jules H. van Binsbergen – “Goes above and beyond” Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2016
David Wessels – William G. Whitney Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Affiliated Faculty, 2016
Robert F. Stambaugh – Marshall Blume Prize Honorable Mention, 2016
Winston Wei Dou – MFM Dissertation Award, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at UChicago, 2016
Michael Roberts – Core Curriculum Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 2015
Michael Roberts – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Teaching Award, Nominee, The Wharton School, 2015
Vincent Glode – Best Paper Award, 12th Annual Conference in Financial Economics at IDC-Herzliya, 2015
David Wessels – William G. Whitney Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Affiliated Faculty, 2015
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Poets and Quants: Best 40 under 40 Business School Professors, 2015
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Marshall E. Blume Prize (Honorable Mention) for “Measuring Skill in the Mutual Fund Industry”, 2014
Robert F. Stambaugh – Best Paper, Jacobs Levy Equity Managment Center for Quantitative Financial Research, 2015
Michael Roberts – Marshall E. Blume Prize – First Place, 2014
Robert F. Stambaugh – Marshall Blume Prize honorable mention, 2014
Robert F. Stambaugh – Fellow of the American Finance Association, 2014
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Spence Faculty Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2013-2014
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Finalist AQR Insight Award for “Measuring Skill in the Mutual Fund Industry”, 2013
Michael Roberts – Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Fellowship, The Wharton School, 2013
Michael Roberts – Greener Family Fellowship, The Wharton School, 2013
David Wessels – William G. Whitney Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Affiliated Faculty, 2013
David Wessels – Excellence in Teaching Award, Full-time MBA Program, 2013
Winston Wei Dou – Best Paper Award, Red Rock Finance Conference, 2013
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Faculty impact award for excellence in teaching, Student Association Kellogg School of Management, 2012
Vincent Glode – Cynthia and Bennett Golub Faculty Scholar Award, 2012-2013
Robert F. Stambaugh – Whitebox Advisors first prize, 2012
Michael Roberts – Rising Stars of Finance, 2012
Michael Roberts – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Teaching Award, Nominee, The Wharton School, 2012
Michael Roberts – Financial Research Associate, Best Discussant, 2012
Robert F. Stambaugh – AQR Insight Award honorable mention, 2012
David Wessels – Excellence in Teaching Award, Full-time MBA Program, 2012
David Wessels – William G. Whitney Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Affiliated Faculty, 2012
Robert F. Stambaugh – Marshall Blume Prize honorable mention, 2012
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Chair’s award for excellence in teaching in the core, Kellogg School of Management, 2011
David Wessels – Excellence in Teaching Award, WEMBA San Francisco, 2011
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award for “On the Timing and Pricing of Dividends”, 2010
Michael Roberts – Geewax, Terker, and Co. Prize, Distinguished paper published by Rodney L. White Center, 2010
Joseph Gyourko – Excellence in Teaching Awardee, 2010 Description

The Excellence in Teaching Awards are awarded annually to eight (8) MBA faculty members who receive the highest average instructor rating on their course evaluation forms over the three prior semesters. The course evaluation forms are filled out by the students at the conclusion of every course.
David Wessels – Excellence in Teaching Award, Full-time MBA Program, 2010
Robert F. Stambaugh – Fellow of the Financial Management Association, 2010
Nikolai Roussanov – Terker Family Prize in Investment Reseach, 2010
Joao F. Gomes – Smith Breeden First Prize for Best Asset Pricing Paper Published in the Journal of Finance, 2010
Vincent Glode – Terker Family Prize in Financial Research [2nd prize], 2010
Michael Roberts – Rodney L. White Center Research Grant, The Wharton School, 2009
David Wessels – Excellence in Teaching Award, WEMBA San Francisco, 2009
Winston Wei Dou – I. R. Savage Award in Nonparametric Statistics, American Statistical Association, 2009
Jules H. van Binsbergen – Goldman Sachs Asset Management Award (WFA) for “Predictive Regressions a Present-Value Approach”, 2008
Michael Roberts – Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 2008
Michael Roberts – Brattle Prize, Distinguished Award for Best Paper published in the Journal of Finance, 2008
Michael Roberts – Brattle Prize, Nominee for Best Paper Published in the Journal of Finance, 2008
Vincent Glode – Best Paper Award in Capital Markets, Northern Finance Association meeting, 2008
Michael Roberts – Rodney L. White Center Research Grant, The Wharton School, 2007
Michael Roberts – Aronson, Johnson, and Ortiz Research Fellowship, The Wharton School, 2007
Michael Roberts – Greek Executive Council Honorable Recognition, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Robert F. Stambaugh – Goldman Sachs Asset Management Award (Western Finance Association), 2007
Joao F. Gomes – Crowell First Prize, Best Quantitative Work, PanAgora Asset Management, 2007
Vincent Glode – Best Paper Award in Investments, Financial Management Association meeting, 2007
Robert W. Holthausen – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2007-2008
Michael Roberts – Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 2006
Michael Roberts – David W. Hauk Award for Outstanding Teaching, The Wharton School, 2006
Michael Roberts – Greek Executive Council Honorable Recognition, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Michael Roberts – Geewax, Terker, and Co. Prize, Distinguished paper published by Rodney L. White Center, 2006
Michael Roberts – Brattle Prize, Distinguished Award for Best Paper published in the Journal of Finance, 2006
David Wessels – Excellence in Teaching Award, Full-time MBA Program, 2006
Christopher Geczy – Best Elective Course Teaching Award, Wharton West, Executive MBA Program, 2006
Christopher Geczy – Best Paper Award, Annual Conference on Market Structure and Market Integrity, 2006
Michael Roberts – Rodney L. White Center Research Grant, The Wharton School, 2005
Michael Roberts – NYSE Fellowship, The Wharton School, 2005
Michael Roberts – Review of Financial Studies, Outstanding Referee Award, 2005
Susan M Wachter – American Real Estate and Urban Economics Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005
Michael Roberts – Rodney L. White Center Research Grant, The Wharton School, 2004
Michael Roberts – Daimler-Chrysler Core Teaching Award, Duke University, 2004
Michael Roberts – Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 2004
Michael Roberts – Southwestern Finance Association, Best Paper in Corporate Finance, 2004
Michael Roberts – Financial Management Association Award, Best Paper in Corporate Finance, 2004
David Wessels – Excellence in Teaching Award, WEMBA San Francisco, 2004
Joao F. Gomes – Brattle Prize Nomination, Best Corporate Finance Paper Published in the Journal of Finance, 2004
Christopher Geczy – Weiss Center for International Financial Research research grant, 2004
Christopher Geczy – Caesarea Prize for the Best Paper on Risk Management, Western Finance Association, for ”Taking a View: On Corporate Speculation and Governance”, 2004
Robert W. Holthausen – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2004-2005
Robert F. Stambaugh – Moskowitz Prize honorable mention, 2003
Michael Roberts – Hartman Center Grant, Duke University, 2003
Michael Roberts – CIBER International Research Grant, Duke University, 2003
Christopher Geczy – The Bank of Canada Award for ”The Limits to Dividend Arbitrage: Implications for Cross-Border Investment”, 2003
Christopher Geczy – Moskowitz Prize (Honorable Mention) for ”Investing in Socially Responsible Mutual Funds”, 2003
Robert W. Holthausen – Wharton Graduate Association Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003-2004
Michael Roberts – CIBER International Research Grant, Duke University, 2002
Robert F. Stambaugh – Geewax-Terker Prize honorable mention, 2002
Robert F. Stambaugh – Fama-DFA Prize (second-place paper, Journal of Financial Economics), 2002
Jeremy Siegel – Lindback Award, awarded by the Lindback Society and the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation for Distinguished teaching, 2002
Christopher Geczy – Zicklin Center Research Grant for “The Performance of Socially Screened Mutual Funds and the Convictions of Investors”, 2002-2003
Jeremy Siegel – JeremySiegel.com Awarded Best Website of Business Professor, by Forbes Magazine, 2001
David Wessels – Trefftzs Award, Western Finance Association, 2000
Michael Roberts – UC Regents Fellowship, University of California Berkeley, 2000
Michael Roberts – Elizabeth Schott Award for Excellence in Statistical Research, University of California Berkeley, 2000
Christopher Geczy – Q Group Research Grant for ”Stocks are Special, Too”, 2000-2001
Robert F. Stambaugh – Fama-DFA Prize (second-place paper, Journal of Financial Economics), 1999
Susan M Wachter – Presidential Appointment, Senate Confirmation, Assistant Secretary, HUD, 1998-2001
Robert W. Holthausen – Welling Professorship, George Washington University, 1998-2000
Robert F. Stambaugh – Marvin Bower Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Business, 1997
Robert F. Stambaugh – Fama-DFA Prize (second-place paper, Journal of Financial Economics), 1997
Christopher Geczy – Rodney L. White Center (Wharton) research grants, 1997 (1), 1999 (2), 2001(1), 2002(2), 2003, 2004, 1997-2004
Christopher Geczy – Nominated for the Smith Breeden Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Finance for “Why Firms Use Currency Derivatives”, 1997
Robert F. Stambaugh – Smith-Breeden Prize (first-prize paper, Journal of Finance), 1996
Jeremy Siegel – Anvil Award, Outstanding MBA Professor, 1996
Susan M Wachter – Best Published Paper (Real Estate Economics), 1996
Robert W. Holthausen – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 1995-1996
Joao F. Gomes – Kaplan Memorial Prize for excellent scholarship – University of Rochester, 1994
Jeremy Siegel – Outstanding Business School Professor, named by Business Week, 1994
Jeremy Siegel – Winner of Graham and Dodd Award, the Association for Investment Management and Research for the best article in the Financial Analyst Journal, 1993
Christopher Geczy – Center for Research in Security Prices Research Grant, 1993-1994
Robert W. Holthausen – David J. Hauck Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1992-1993
Robert W. Holthausen – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 1992-1993
Joao F. Gomes – Banco of Portugal Award, First Prize for Highest Undergraduate Average In Economics, 1991
Robert W. Holthausen – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 1990-1991
Robert W. Holthausen – Wharton Graduate Association Excellence in Teaching Award, 1990-1991
Robert W. Holthausen – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 1989-1990
Robert F. Stambaugh – Batterymarch Fellow, 1985
Robert W. Holthausen – Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. Grant, 1982-1983
Robert W. Holthausen – Managerial Economics Research Center Grant, University of Rochester, 1979
Robert W. Holthausen – Arthur Andersen & Co. Doctoral Dissertation Grant, 1978-1979
Robert W. Holthausen – Richard D. Irwin Foundation Fellow, 1978-1979
Robert W. Holthausen – Dean’s Honor List, University of Rochester, 1976-1977
Robert W. Holthausen – University Fellowship at the University of Rochester, 1975-1978
Robert W. Holthausen – Beta Gamma Sigma, University of Rochester, 1971
Lu Liu – Marshall Blume Prize, 2024
Lorena Keller – Marshall Blume Prize in Financial Research – Honorary Mention, 2020
Sasha Indarte – Marshall Blume Prize, 1970 Description

(for “Moral Hazard versus Liquidity in Household Bankruptcy”)
Richard J. Herring – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2019-2021
Bulent Gultekin – Teaching Excellence Award, Wharton Executive MBA Program, 2003-2007
Daniel G. Garrett – Referee of the Year, National Tax Journal, 1970
Itamar Drechsler – Brattle Group Prize (Distinguished Paper) for best corporate finance paper in the Journal of Finance, 1970
Domenico Cuoco – University of Pennsylvania MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 1970
Gideon Bornstein – National Science Foundation Grant, 2021-2023 Description

“The Anatomy of Firm Exit: Theory and Facts,” co-PI with Laura Castillo-Martinez
Andrew B. Abel – Distinguished Fellow, Macro Finance Society, 1970
William Diamond – Jacobs Levy Center Research Outstanding Paper Prize for “Risk-Free Interest Rates” (with Jules van Binsbergen and Marco Grotteria), 1970
Robert W. Holthausen – University Fellowship at the University of Rochester, 1969-1971

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