Morgan Stanley AFA Award

MORGAN STANLEY-AMERICAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FINANCE
 
The Award.  AFA has established a new bi-annual finance award to be granted based on an individual’s career achievements in outstanding thought leadership in the field of financial economics. The Award will be granted by AFA beginning in 2008 and continuing for 5 bi-annual periods. There shall only be one recipient of the Award in any bi-annual period. 

Award Criteria.  AFA shall be solely responsible for the selection of the Award Recipient using the following selection criteria:

Selection of award winner

At its annual meeting the Executive Committee of the AFA will nominate and the AFA Board will approve a selection committee, to be chaired by the outgoing President.  The committee will evaluate candidates for the award based on the impact of the candidates’ research along several dimensions.

• Fundamental Impact.  Fundamental research opens new areas to inquiry, changes scholars’, practitioners', and regulators' thinking about basic problems, or develops new tools that make academic and practical research progress possible.
• Sustained Impact. The candidates’ activities should have a cumulative impact through the course of a career, and continuing influence on current research.
• Broad Impact.  The most important research contributions are likely to be widely understood and appreciated across multiple subfields, to influence subsequent research, practice, and pedagogy, and to alter the course of empirical and theoretical inquiry.   

Award Prize.  AFA, with the financial support of Morgan Stanley (http://www.morganstanley.com), shall provide each Award Recipient of the Award a gift in the amount of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000), such gift to be made to an eligible institution in support of research activities in the financial field of the Award Recipient’s choosing.   An institution is eligible to receive the Award Prize if such charity is a recognized 501c-3 charity (or the equivalent for non-US charities).  The Award Prize will be made by Morgan Stanley in the name of the Award Recipient as follows:  [Award Recipient name] as a recipient of the Morgan Stanley – American Financial Association Award for Excellence in Finance.