2009 Awards and Honors (Nber News‪)‬

A number of NBER researchers received honors, awards, and other forms of professional recognition during 2009 and early 2010. A list of these honors, excluding those that were bestowed by the researcher's home university and listing researchers in alphabetical order, is presented below. Viral Acharya won the Viz Risk Management Prize on Energy Markets, Securities, and Prices at the European Finance Association meetings for "Limits to Arbitrage and Hedging: Evidence from Commodity Markets" which was co-authored by Lars Lochstoer and Tarun Ramadorai. He also received the III Jaime Fernandez de Araoz Corporate Finance Best Paper Award for "The Internal Governance of Firms" which was co-authored by Stewart Myers and Raghuram G. Rajan, and a Distinguished Referee Award from the Review of Financial Studies.