In the 48th EBES Conference, John P. Rust Best Paper Award went to

“Private Firm Disclosures and Public Firms’ Debt Choice” by Fengqin Chen from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; Jeffrey Pittman from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; and Walid Saffar from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

We would like to thank to Springer Nature for their support to the Best Paper Award.

Runner-up paper is “Analyzing the Evidence on Escalation of Commitment in non-CEO Top Management Team Turnover” by Dmitriy Chulkov from Indiana University Kokomo, U.S.A.

Third paper is “Discrimination in Input Pricing, Technology Licensing and Welfare Implications” by Chenhang Zeng from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China; Chu Qiao from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China; and Lin Zhao from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China.