De La Vega Prize
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About the FESE De la Vega Prize
Each year since 2000, the FESE De la Vega Prize has been awarded to a young scholar for an outstanding research paper on financial markets. The Prize particularly values papers about current developments in European financial markets which promote public markets. The amount awarded will be EUR 5,000.
FESE De la Vega Prize Jury
- Söhnke M. Bartram, Ph.D., Professor of Finance, University of Warwick and CEPR
- Alain Durré, Ph.D., Executive Director and Economiste en chef, Goldman Sachs Paris
- Marlene D. Haas, Ph.D., Principal, Cornerstone Research
- Thomas Johann, Assistant Professor, University of Mannheim
- Arman Khachaturyan, Ph.D., Government Affairs Advisor
- Thorsten Martin, Associate Professor of Finance, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
- Ángel Pardo Tornero, Professor, Department of Financial Economics, University of Valencia
- Talis Putnins, Professor, Finance Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney
- Roger Silvers, Assistant Professor, School of Accounting, David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah
- Apostolos Thomadakis, Ph.D., Head of Research, European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI); Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).
- Christian Westheide, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Edinburgh
About Josseph De la Vega
Josseph De la Vega was born around 1650 into a family of Sephardi Jews. After several dramatic works and novels, in 1688 De la Vega published Confusión de Confusiones, a book of dialogues concerned with the operations of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. De la Vega gives three motives for writing the dialogues: simple pleasure; to increase understanding among those who were not in the financial business of what he regarded as “the most honest and most useful [business] of all that existed at the time”; and, on the other hand, to caution about the “tricks” engaged in by contemporary financial businesspeople.1 FESE believes there still to be much value and relevance today in many of De la Vega’s observations about the behaviour of investors in markets. This is why since 2000 FESE has chosen to award an eponymous Prize to young scholars delivering outstanding research in the same field.