The prize committee of Inquire Europe decided to award the prize for the best paper presented at the Autumn Seminar 2024 to Isil Erel, for her presentation entitled “Risk-Adjusting the Returns to Private Debt Funds”.
Professor Isil Erel is the David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance and the academic director of the Risk Institute at the Fisher College of Business of the Ohio State University. She holds a PhD in financial economics from MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research spans a variety of areas within corporate finance, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and financial institutions. This research has been published in top finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.
Professor Erel wrote the paper with her co-authors Michael Weisbach (Ohio State University) and Thomas Flanagan (Ohio State University).
We congratulate our winner, and we are delighted this paper was submitted for presentation at the Inquire Europe seminar. The Prize Committee recognized the clarity of the presentation and was particularly impressed by the practical relevance of the research findings. The audience also rated the presentation highly, which reflects their recognition of the quality and relevance of the work.
Inquire Europe members can download the paper at the members only area of this website under the section previous seminars / Autumn Seminar 2024.
Isil Erel:
“I am truly honored and humbled to receive this award from such a highly prestigious institution, Inquire Europe! The most rewarding part of my career as an academician is seeing the relevance of my research in understanding and solving real-world problems! Attending the Inquire Europe Fall Seminar was a great learning experience for me – I’ve received amazing feedback from people with deep understanding of the field that would shape the direction of my current and future research. I am looking forward to sustaining a long-term relationship with such brilliant and extremely helpful practitioners.”