Call for papers! FESE De la Vega Prize 2026

The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) will award the FESE De la Vega Prize 2026 to a young scholar for an outstanding research paper on financial markets.

Papers about current developments in European financial markets which promote public markets are particularly welcome. The winning paper and author(s) will be awarded EUR 5,000.

Papers should be submitted by Friday 27^th February 2026 to the FESE Secretariat at bucyte@fese.eu. They should be accompanied by an abstract, the CV(s) of the author(s), and confirmation that the conditions outlined in the Terms of Reference (e.g. authors must be aged 40 or under and papers must not be published in a peer-reviewed journal) are fulfilled.

Terms of reference

Past winning papers

The Prize jury comprises:

• 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
• 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, Associate Professor, University of Utah
• Apostolos Thomadakis, Ph.D., Head of Research, ECMI; Research Fellow, CEPS
• Christian Westheide, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Edinburgh