The French Finance Association (AFFI) is awarding, every year, a prize to honor the memory of its late president Professor Georges Gallais-Hamonno. The prize, funded by a grant from Professor Janine Gallais-Hamonno, will be awarded to an original study (working paper) in Historical Finance*, covering the fields of Financial Economics and Financial Markets in the Long Run.

Conditions:

To encourage young researchers, articles (in English) should be submitted no more than three years after Ph.D. acquisition. The winner will be awarded €1,000 and the academic journal Cliometrica, as a partner of the prize, will peer-review the winner's paper for potential publication.

The deadline for submissions is March 21, 2022 (midnight CET).

Papers (pdf version) should be sent to the secretary-general of the prize Dr. Amir Rezaee: amir.rezaee@isg.fr

Professor Georges Gallais-Hamonno, considered as the founder of Historical Finance in France, dedicated most of his career to the study of financial markets in the long run. Former Chairman of the Department of economics and management, then Dean of the Faculty of law, economics, and management, he was over five decades, professor of economics and finance at the University of Orléans, France.

*Historical Finance harnesses modern quantitative methods for reassessing past financial economics issues in view of bringing new insights into the workings of complex economic forces.