The following table displays a list of the winners of the William F. Sharpe Award along with information on the article for which it was received.[3]
| Paper | Author(s) | Year | Issue |
|---|
| “Social Transmission Bias and Investor Behavior” | Bing Han, David Hirshleifer, and Johan Walden | 2022 | February 2022 |
| “Granularity of Corporate Debt” | Jaewon Choi, Dirk Hackbarth, and Josef Zechner | 2021 | June 2021 |
| “Relative Performance Evaluation in CEO Compensation: A Talent-Retention Explanation” | David De Angelis and Yaniv Grinstein | 2020 | November 2020 |
| “Are Buybacks Good for Long-Term Shareholder Value? Evidence from Buybacks around the World” | Alberto Manconi, Urs Peyer, and Theo Vermaelen | 2019 | October 2019 |
| “Taxes, Capital Structure Choices, and Equity Value” | Mara Faccio and Jin Xu | 2018 | June 2018 |
| “Text-Based Industry Momentum” | Gerard Hoberg and Gordon M. Phillips | 2018 | December 2018 |
| “Industrial Electricity Usage and Stock Returns” | Zhi Da, Dayong Huang, Hayong Yun | 2017 | February 2017 |
| “Differential Access to Price Information in Financial Markets” | David Easley, Maureen O'Hara, Liyan Yang | 2016 | August 2016 |
| “Taxes and Capital Structure” | Mara Faccio, Jin Xu | 2015 | June 2015 |
| “How Does the Market Value Toxic Assets?” | Francis A. Longstaff, Brett W. Myers | 2014 | April 2014 |
| "Where Have All the IPOs Gone?" | Xiaohui Gao, Jay R. Ritter, Zhongyan Zhu | 2013 | December 2013 |
| "Aggregate Idiosyncratic Volatility" | Geert Bekaert, Robert J. Hodrick, Xiaoyan Zhang | 2012 | December 2012 |
| "Shareholders' Say on Pay: Does It Create Value?" | Jie Cai, Ralph A. Walkling | 2011 | April 2011 |
| "Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence from Their Trades Prior to Earnings Announcements" | Malcolm Baker, Lubomir Litov, Jessica A. Wachter, Jeffrey Wurgler | 2010 | October 2010 |
| "Testing Theories of Capital Structure and Estimating the Speed of Adjustment" | Rongbing Huang, Jay R. Ritter | 2009 | April 2009 |
| "The Cost to Firms of Cooking Books" | Jonathan Karpoff, D. Scott Lee, Gerald S. Martin | 2008 | September 2008 |
| "Characterizing World Market Integration through Time" | Francesca Carrieri, Vihang Errunza, Ked Hogan | 2007 | December 2007 |
| "Top Management Incentives and the Pricing of Corporate Public Debt" | Hernan Ortiz-Molina | 2006 | June 2006 |
| "Determinants of Board Size and Composition: A Theory of Corporate Boards" | Charu G. Raheja | 2005 | June 2005 |
| "Abnormal Returns from the Common Stock Investments of the U.S. Senate" | Alan J. Ziobrowski, Ping Cheng, James W. Boyd, Brigitte J. Ziobrowski | 2004 | December 2004 |
| "Corporate Governance and the Home Bias" | Magnus Dahlquist, Lee Pinkowitz, René M. Stulz, Rohan Williamson | 2003 | March 2003 |
| "The Determinants of the Flow of Funds of Managed Portfolios: Mutual Funds vs. Pension Funds" | Diane Del Guercio, Paula A. Tkac | 2002 | December 2002 |
| "Long-Run Performance and Insider Trading in Completed and Canceled Seasoned Equity Offerings" | Jonathan Clarke, Craig Dunbar, Kathleen M. Kahle | 2001 | December 2001 |
| "The Long-Run Performance of Global Equity Offerings" | Stephen R. Foerster, G. Andrew Karolyi | 2000 (split) | December 2000 |
| "Behavioral Portfolio Theory" | Hersh Shefrin, Meir Statman | 2000 (split) | June 2000 |
| "A Trading Volume Benchmark: Theory and Evidence" | Paula A. Tkac | 1999[4] | March 1999 | |
