The prize committees of Inquire Europe decided to award the prize for the best paper presented at the Autumn Seminar 2023 to Raman Uppal, for his presentation entitled “What is Missing in Asset-Pricing Factor Models”.
Raman Uppal is a Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics (Honors) from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and M.A., M.B.A., and Ph.D. degrees from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on optimal portfolio selection and asset pricing in dynamic environments. This research has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. He is currently an editor of the Journal of Systematic Investing and an associate editor of The Critical Finance Review. In the past, he has served as an editor of the Review of Financial Studies, Review of Finance, and Review of Asset Pricing Studies.
Professor Uppal wrote the paper with his co-authors Massimo Dello-Preite (Imperial College London), Paolo Zaffaroni (Imperial College London), and Irina Zviadadze (HEC Paris and CEPR).
We congratulate our winner, and we are delighted this paper was submitted for presentation at the Inquire Europe seminar. The Prize Committee enjoyed the clarity of the presentation and the real practical interest of the study. The audience also gave very high marks which shows it was also convinced of the quality and the 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 2023.
Raman Uppal:
“Presenting my paper at the Inquire Europe conference to an audience consisting of knowledgeable practitioners and senior academics was an excellent experience. There were several excellent suggestions regarding the work that I presented, some of which will lead to follow-up papers. More importantly, it was extremely satisfying to receive prompt feedback on the work that I presented—the feedback forms were received within a week of the conference—instead of having to wait for several months.”
Inquire Europe members can download the paper at the members only area of this website under the section previous seminars / Autumn Seminar 2023.