In the 41st EBES Conference, the Best Paper Award went to

“Optimal Retirement with Long-Run Income Risk” by Shan Huang from Schneller Business School, Georgia Tech, U.S.A. and Seyoung Park from University of Nottingham, U.K.

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

Runner-up paper is “Parenting during the Pandemic: An Analysis of the Time Use of Parents as K-12 Schools Reopened in the United States” by Cynthia Bansak from St. Lawrence University, U.S.A.; Yue Bao from Jinan University, China; and Jun Hyung Kim from Jinan University, China.

Third paper is “Bank Socialness: It Matters When It Counts” by Joseph Arthur from University of Iowa, U.S.A.