We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2021 BlackRock Applied Research Award: Alexandru Barbu in the Finance program from the London Business School for his paper and research on "Ex-Post Loss Sharing in Consumer Financial Markets".
We also congratulate Alexandru's fellow finalists:
• Antonio Coppola, Harvard University, Economics
• Simon Schmickler, Princeton University, Economics
• Aymeric Bellon, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton, Finance
• David Yang, Stanford University, Finance
2021 Academic Panel
Andrew Ang, BlackRock, Managing Director, Head of Factor-Based Strategies Group
Anna Cieslak, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Associate Professor of Finance
Robert Engle, New York University Stern School of Business, Michael Armellino Professor of Management and Financial Services, Co-Director of The Volatility and Risk Institute, 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics
Ravi Jagannathan, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, CME Group/John F. Sandner Chair of Finance, Co-Director of Financial Institutions and Markets Research Center
Ronald Kahn, BlackRock, Managing Director, Global Head of Systematic Equity Research
David Thesmar, MIT Sloan School of Management, Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics, Professor of Finance