In the 49th EBES Conference, John P. Rust Best Paper Award went to

“Comovements and Determinants of Sovereign Credit Default Swaps“ by Hasan Isomitdinov from University of Alabama, U.S.A.; Junsoo Lee from University of Alabama, U.S.A.; and Vladimir Arčabić from University of Alabama, U.S.A.

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

Runner-up paper is “The Moderating Role of Country-level Governance on the Relationship between Corporate Governance and Bank Performance Evidence from Deposit Money Banks from Sub–Saharan African Countries (SSA)” by Ayotunde Qudus Saka from Robert Gordon University, U.K.; Xin Zhang from Robert Gordon University, U.K.; and Omaima Hassan from Robert Gordon University, U.K.

Third paper is “The Role of Intra-Field and Inter-Field Knowledge Spillovers in the Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technologies” by Daniel Coronado from University of Cadiz, Spain; Esther Ferrandiz Leon from University of Cadiz, Spain; and Jennifer Medina from University of Cadiz, Spain.