Receive and be grateful:
My last comment from my series of advices regarding conferences for junior researchers: be open to unexpected results: good or bad. The rate of acceptance for an academic journal goes from 15%-20% for good journals to 3%-4% for the top ones (top literature). That is less than one in 20, and this is conditional on submissions (usually of a high quality given how expensive is the process). Then, it's "natural" you'll receive rejections (get used to it!). A similar rate can be observed in conferences (In finance, Western Finance Association conference, one of the leading conference of the field acceptance rate is around 3%). In my case, after +40 conference presentations (+50 including co-authors presentations), it's the first time I win a best paper award:
The 06th of July I received the Constância Investimentos Quantitative Finance best paper award for my paper with my wonderful co-authors Massimo Guidolin and Martin Lozano. The paper is entitled: "The Efficiency vs. Pricing Accuracy Trade-Off in GMM Estimation of Multifactor Linear Asset Pricing Models" and it provides a response to an old discussion about the inferential (estimation) difference between which of the two methods, Beta or the stochastic discount factor (SDF), is better for asset pricing, for the general case of multiple factors. This result can help to bridge the two literatures and opens an avenue for asset pricing researchers to connect results from the two literatures. The event included an special session for the two finalists, of 1 hour 30 mins (45 mins each presenter), and this format was repeated for other two prize categories.
I'm grateful to Constância Investimentos for support to the award, to the president of the Brazilian Society of Finance Marcelo Fernandes, to the other board members of the society, and the organisers, in particular Anderson Odias da Silva the head organiser of the society.
I'm grateful as well to my institution The UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and my colleagues/managers for their ample support: in particular the Dean of our School Anthony Brabazon, the Dean of our Quinn Undergrad School Maeve Houlihan, the Vice Principal of Research, Innovation and Impact Andreas Hoepner, the Head of the Banking and Finance Group John Cotter, and all other members of the institution that works behind doors (The Admin Personnel).