2025 MF Best Paper Award Winner

2025 Modern Finance Best Paper Award Winner

The editorial team of Modern Finance is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Best Paper and Runner-Up Awards:

The following paper has won the prize for the best article published in Modern Finance in the year 2024:

“Pricing the common stocks in emerging markets: The role of economic policy uncertainty” 
by Orbay Arkol and Asil Azimli
Modern Finance, 2024, 2(1), 31–50.
Available online: https://doi.org/10.61351/mf.v2i1.93

In recognition of this achievement, the winners will receive a certificate and €500.00. Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2025 Modern Finance Best Paper Award.

We are also pleased to announce the Runner-Up Award winner:

“African stock markets’ connectedness: Quantile VAR approach”
by OlaOluwa Yaya, Olayinka Adenikinju, and Hammed A. Olayinka
Modern Finance, 2024, 2(1), 51–68.
Available online: https://doi.org/10.61351/mf.v2i1.70

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our contributors for their continued support of Modern Finance. Your dedication to advancing research in finance is greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Adam Zaremba
Editor-in-Chief, Modern Finance