William Sharpe Award
The William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research is an award given each year to the author of the research article published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis which has made the most important contribution to financial economics. The award is dedicated to William F. Sharpe, a financial economist at Stanford University and winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and was established 1999. It is affirmed with a $5000 reward financed donated by the Litzenberger Family Foundation, Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, William Alberts, Norman Metcalfe, and the University of Washington School of Business Administration, among others. Nominees for the William F. Sharpe Award are voted for by JFQA readers and the journal's associate editors, and the managing editors of the journal select a winner among the nominees.
List of JFQA William F. Sharpe Award winners
The following table displays a list of the winners of the William F. Sharpe Award along with information on the article for which it was received.| Paper | Author | Year | Issue |
| “” | Bing Han, David Hirshleifer, and Johan Walden | 2022 | February 2022 |
| “” | Jaewon Choi, Dirk Hackbarth, and Josef Zechner | 2021 | June 2021 |
| “” | David De Angelis and Yaniv Grinstein | 2020 | November 2020 |
| “” | Alberto Manconi, Urs Peyer, and Theo Vermaelen | 2019 | October 2019 |
| “” | Mara Faccio and Jin Xu | 2018 | June 2018 |
| “” | Gerard Hoberg and Gordon M. Phillips | 2018 | December 2018 |
| “” | Zhi Da, Dayong Huang, Hayong Yun | 2017 | February 2017 |
| “” | David Easley, Maureen O'Hara, Liyan Yang | 2016 | August 2016 |
| “” | Mara Faccio, Jin Xu | 2015 | June 2015 |
| “” | Francis A. Longstaff, Brett W. Myers | 2014 | April 2014 |
| "" | Xiaohui Gao, Jay R. Ritter, Zhongyan Zhu | 2013 | December 2013 |
| "" | Geert Bekaert, Robert J. Hodrick, Xiaoyan Zhang | 2012 | December 2012 |
| "" | Jie Cai, Ralph A. Walkling | 2011 | April 2011 |
| "" | Malcolm Baker, Lubomir Litov, Jessica A. Wachter, Jeffrey Wurgler | 2010 | October 2010 |
| "" | Rongbing Huang, Jay R. Ritter | 2009 | April 2009 |
| "" | Jonathan Karpoff, D. Scott Lee, Gerald S. Martin | 2008 | September 2008 |
| "" | Francesca Carrieri, Vihang Errunza, Ked Hogan | 2007 | December 2007 |
| "" | Hernan Ortiz-Molina | 2006 | June 2006 |
| "" | Charu G. Raheja | 2005 | June 2005 |
| "" | Alan J. Ziobrowski, Ping Cheng, James W. Boyd, Brigitte J. Ziobrowski | 2004 | December 2004 |
| "" | Magnus Dahlquist, Lee Pinkowitz, René M. Stulz, Rohan Williamson | 2003 | March 2003 |
| "" | Diane Del Guercio, Paula A. Tkac | 2002 | December 2002 |
| "" | Jonathan Clarke, Craig Dunbar, Kathleen M. Kahle | 2001 | December 2001 |
| "" | Stephen R. Foerster, G. Andrew Karolyi | 2000 | December 2000 |
| "" | Hersh Shefrin, Meir Statman | 2000 | June 2000 |
| "" | Paula A. Tkac | 1999 | March 1999 |