Administrative details

The competition has two stages:

	At Stage 1 a scientific committee will screen written submissions and invite the best papers to be presented at a public event in Stockholm.
	At Stage 2 a jury consisting of the scientific committee and two additional members will select the winners of the competition.

The three best papers receive money prizes of €4000, €2000 and €1000 respectively and will be submitted to JFE, free of charge. The winning authors will also be invited to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony and their papers will be published in the ECGI Working Paper series.

For the 2004 Competition, the submission deadline was 1 September 2004.

The Scientific Committee comprises:

	Professor Erik Berglöf (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics, CEPR and ECGI)
	Professor Claudio Loderer (Director, Institut für Finanzmanagement, Bern and ECGI)
	Professor Luigi Zingales (GSB, University of Chicago, CEPR, NBER and ECGI)

The Stockholm jury comprises the Scientific Committee augmented by:

	Professor Steven Kaplan (GSB, University of Chicago, NBER and ECGI)
	Professor Hans Tson Söderström (Research Director, SNS-Center for Business and Policy Studies)

Winning papers will undergo a refereeing process at the JFE. Papers accepted by this process will be published in a special section of the JFE under the heading “ECGI Clinical Paper Competition”.

For further information, email clinical@ecgi.org