May 8th 2013

Christian Brownlees, professor of the Department of Economics and Business of the UPF, has been awarded the "2013 Engle Prize in Financial Econometrics" for his paper joint with Giampiero Gallo entitled "Comparison of volatility measures: a risk management perspective", Journal of Financial Econometrics, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 29-56, 2010.

The 2013 prize has been awarded to the best paper published in the Journal of Financial Econometrics in 2010, 2011 and 2012 volumes.

The Engle Prize is awarded every two or three years to the best article published in the Journal of Financial Econometrics by young scholar or student who has obtained his/her PhD no more than five years prior to acceptance of the article.