Call for papers! FESE De la Vega Prize 2025

The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) will award the FESE De la Vega Prize 2025 to a young scholar for an outstanding research paper on financial markets.

Papers about current developments in European financial markets which promote public markets are particularly welcome. The winning paper and author(s) will be awarded EUR 5,000.

Papers should be submitted by 4^th April 2025 to the FESE Secretariat at secretariat@fese.eu. They should be accompanied by an abstract, the CV(s) of the author(s), and confirmation that the conditions outlined in the Terms of reference (e.g. authors must be aged 40 or under and papers must not be published in a peer-reviewed journal) are fulfilled.

Terms of reference

Past winning papers

The Prize jury comprises:

• Söhnke M. Bartram, Ph.D., Professor of Finance, University of Warwick and CEPR
• Alain Durré, Ph.D., Executive Director and Economiste en chef, Goldman Sachs Paris
• Marlene D. Haas, Ph.D., Principal, Cornerstone Research
• Thomas Johann, Assistant Professor, University of Mannheim
• Arman Khachaturyan, Ph.D., Government Affairs Advisor
• Thorsten Martin, Associate Professor of Finance, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
• Ángel Pardo Tornero, Professor, Department of Financial Economics, University of Valencia
• Talis Putnins, Professor, Finance Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
• Roger Silvers, Assistant Professor, School of Accounting, David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah
• Apostolos Thomadakis, Ph.D., Head of Research, ECMI; Research Fellow, CEPS
• Christian Westheide, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Edinburgh