At the 53rd EBES Conference, the John P. Rust Best Paper Award went to 

“Letting the Reins Loose: Central Bank Stock Purchases and Corporate Governance” by Kohei Aono from Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Hiroshi Gunji from Daito Bunka University, Japan; and Hayato Nakata from Meisei University, Japan. 

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

The runner-up paper is “Fair Volatility: A Framework for Reconceptualizing Financial Risk” by Sergio Bianchi from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and Daniele Angelini from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

The third paper is “Automation and Corporate Social Responsibility” by Cansu Iskenderoglu from Ozyegin University, Türkiye and Barıs Ince from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.