The award recognises the best solo-authored paper by a PhD student. One of the award's criteria is that the student’s work shows exceptional promise in advancing academic understanding in the field of finance.

She presented her paper ‘Market Concentration, Capital Misallocation, and Asset Pricing’, which examines how capital misallocation between superstar (large companies with global reach and market power) and non-superstar firms affects asset pricing. She will also receive a cash prize of USD 2,000 for her outstanding contribution.

This is the second award Nguyen has received for this paper. In October 2024, she was also awarded Best Paper in Asset Pricing at the 7th Asset Pricing Conference hosted by LTI@UniTO at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy. 
Her research focuses on asset pricing. In particular, she studies the macroeconomic impacts of firms and the role of institutional investors’ on asset pricing. Nguyen can be contacted by email for more details about her research paper.