In 23rd EBES Conference – Madrid, the best paper award went to

“Exploring the Dynamics of Bitcoin’s price: A Bayesian Structural Time Series Approach” by Obryan Poyser from Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

Runner-up paper is “Big Moves of Mutual Funds” by Thorsten Lehnert from University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Third paper is “National Culture, Ownership Structure and Corporate Risk Taking” by Jose Maria Diez Esteban from University of Burgos, Spain; Jorge Bento Farinha from University of Porto Faculty of Economics and Center for Economics and Finance (CEF-UP), Portugal; and Conrado Diego Garcia Gomez from University of Valladolid, Spain.

We would like to thank to Professor John Rust from Georgetown University for his generous support to the Best Paper Award.