Best Student Paper Research Award

1st Place: Mehmet Saglam (Columbia University)
2nd Place: (tie) Konstantin Kalinchenko (U. of Florida)
Haowen Zhong (Columbia University)

Best Presentation Award

1st Place: Olympia Hadjiliadis (CUNY)
"Insurance Against Market Crashes"

Honorable Mentions:
Stein-Erik Fleten (Norwegian U. of Science and Tech.)
"Selective Hedging in Hydro-based Electricity Companies"

Wendy Roth (U. of Tennessee)
"Analysis of the Impact of Contagion Flow on High Yield Bond Portfolios"