The Finance Forum provides a series of merit awards each year for research work submitted to its Annual Conference through the peer-review process.
2014 Awards categories:

Best Paper of the Conference
Asociación Española de Finanzas (AEFIN)
1200 euros
Trade credit and financial distress.
by Judit Montoriol-Garriga (Planificación Estratégica y Estudios. CaixaBank) and Emilia Garcia-Appendini (University of St Gallen)

Best Paper on Fixed Income
Bolsa y Mercados Españoles (BME)
1200 euros
Liquidity and Corporate Debt Market Timing.
by Belen Nieto (University of Alicante) y Marina Balboa (University of Alicante)

Best Paper on Regulation
Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV)
1200 euros
Too Big to Discipline
Patricia Boyallian (Aalto University School of Business) and Pablo Ruiz-Verdu (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Best Paper on Stock Markets
Bolsa y Mercados Españoles (BME)
1200 euros
Momentum and default risk. Some results using the jump component.
by Ana Gonzalez-Urteaga (Public University of Navarre), Luis Muga (Public University of Navarre) and Rafael Santamaria (Public University of Navarre)

Best Paper on Derivatives
Bolsa y Mercados Españoles (BME)
1200 euros
Bolsa y Mercados Españoles (BME)
by Jacinto Marabel Romo (BBVA and University of Alcalá) and Martino Grasselli (Università degli Studi di Padova -Italy- and DeVinci Finance Lab)