Kerry Y. Siani

Kerry Siani (Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Finance) has won the award for 2026 Best Empirical Finance Paper (the Wharton School – WRDS [Wharton Research Data Services] Award) from the Western Finance Association (WFA).

Siani’s winning working paper, co-authored with Julia Selgrad (the University of Chicago Booth School of Business), is titled “Monetary Policy and Investment Plans.”

The award was presented in June in Denver at the 2026 WFA meeting.

Kerry Siani (Class of 1958 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Finance) has won the 2026 North America Best Paper in Corporate Finance from the Society for Financial Studies (SFS), for the second year in a row. This year, the award was sponsored by Wharton Research Data Services.

Siani’s winning working paper, co-authored with Julia Selgrad (University of Chicago Booth School of Business), is titled “Monetary Policy and Investment Plans.”

The award was presented  in Charlottesville, Virginia, at SFS Cavalcade North America 2026, an annual conference that covers all areas of finance and is a joint project of the Review of Financial Studies, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and Review of Asset Pricing Studies.
 

Kerry Siani (Class of 1958 Career Development assistant professor and assistant professor of Finance) and Christopher Noe (senior lecturer in Accounting) were each awarded the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching, established to honor educational innovation and excellence. The Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award is the most prestigious teaching prize offered by the School. The award was established in 2006 and is awarded each year to two MIT Sloan faculty members, as well as two electrical engineering and computer science faculty members, for their contributions to educational excellence at MIT.

The prize was announced for Siani and Noe at the 2026 MIT Sloan Excellence in Teaching Awards for the 2025-2026 academic year.  Additionally, Noe, along with Andrew W. Lo, won an Outstanding Teacher Award. A Zoom recording of the event can be seen here.
 

Assistant professor Lira Mota and assistant professor Kerry Siani have won the 2025 North America Best Paper in Corporate Finance from the Society for Financial Studies (SFS).

Their winning working paper is titled “Financially Sophisticated Firms: A Demand-Based Approach to Corporate Financing.”

The award was presented in May 2025 in Hoboken, NJ, at SFS Cavalcade North America 2025, an annual conference that is a joint project of the Review of Financial Studies, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and Review of Asset Pricing Studies.

Kerry Siani (Assistant Professor of Finance) has won an MIT Sloan School Outstanding Teacher Award for the 2022-2023 academic year. Mohammed Fazel Zarandi (Senior Lecturer in Operations Research/Statistics; Research Scientist) also won an Outstanding Teacher Award.  Each year, students nominate instructors for these teaching awards and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations. Deputy Dean Michael Cusumano thanked the winners of this year’s teaching awards for “exemplifying the dedication to pedagogical excellence that is so central to our mission at MIT Sloan.”