Professor David Laibson Named as Award Winner of the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security

November 8, 2012
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(December 2, 2011) Professor David Laibson of the Harvard University Economics Department has been named as a winner of the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security.

Professor David Laibson and co-authors Brigitte C. Madrian and James J. Choi won the Samuelson Award for their paper, “Why Does the Law of One Price Fall? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds," published in The Review of Financial Studies, 2010.

The award includes a cash prize of $10,000 and will be presented at the Allied Social Science Association annual convention on January 6, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.

For more information:

The TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security

"Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds" by James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian.  Review of Financial Studies (2010) 23(4): 1405-1432.

Professor David Laibson’s Faculty web page