Thu Nguyen receives best paper award at the European Financial Management Association
PhD student Thu Nguyen (University of Amsterdam) won the John A. Doukas PhD Best Paper Award at the European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Annual Meeting 2025.
This paper award recognizes the best-solo authored research paper by a PhD student that demonstrates the most potential to advance understanding in the field of finance.
Thu presented her paper titled 'Market Concentration, Capital Misallocation, and Asset Pricing.' This paper explores how capital misallocation between superstar and non-superstar firms influences asset pricing. In recognition of her outstanding work, she will receive a cash prize of USD 2,000.
This is the second paper award Thu receives for this paper. In October 2024, she also won the best paper in Asset Pricing at the 7th Asset Pricing Conference by LTI@UniTO at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy.