HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Advanced Researcher Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation, 1978-1980.
Dean’s Research Professorship, Ohio State University, Spring 1984.
Pacesetter Research Award, Ohio State University, April 1986.
President-Elect (1993) and President (1994), International Economics and Finance Society.
Docteur Honoris Causa, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1998.
Eastern Finance Association Scholar Award, 1998.
Selected keynote speeches: ABFER, Asia-Pacific Finance Association, Bank of the Netherlands Governance Conference, Bocconi Derivatives Annual Conference, Drexel Corporate Governance Conference, Eastern Finance Association, European Corporate Finance Institute, European Finance Association, European Financial Management Association, Financial Management Association, Financial Management Association European Conference, FDIC Annual Conference, Rising Stars Conference, Fourth Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets of the Korean Securities Association, French Finance Association, German Finance Association, Infiniti Conference, Notre Dame/SEC Conference, Northern Finance Association, Swiss Banking Association 100th Anniversary Conference, Western Finance Association, World Finance Conference, China International Conference in Finance, South Carolina Conference on Banking and Fixed Income, Asian Finance Association Conference, Seoul Asian Financial Forum, Oklahoma University Energy and Commodities Finance Research Conference, ECGI Roundtable Riga, ECGI Annual Meeting, Institutional Investor Private Markets Summit, 7th HEC Paris Workshop, Asian Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, Institute for Private Capital Annual Research Conference.
Assurant Lecture, Georgia Tech University, 2004.
Fellow, Financial Management Association, 2000.
Fellow, American Finance Association, 2005.
Fellow, European Corporate Governance Institute, 2005.
Vice-President (2002), Program Chair, (2003), President (2004), Western Finance Association.
Vice-President (2002), President-elect (2003), President (2004), American Finance Association.
Who’s Who in Banking and Finance; Who’s Who in Economics.
Jensen Prize for best article in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2000, 2008; runner-up, 2011.
William F. Sharpe Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis during the year 2003.
Selected by the magazine Treasury and Risk Management as one of the 100 most influential people in finance (June 2004).
René M. Stulz Scholar Development Fund, created in 2005 by former Ph.D. students.
Fama/DFA Prize for best article in Capital Markets and Asset Pricing in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2005.
Nominated for a Brattle Prize for best paper in Corporate Finance in the Journal of Finance in 2005.
Risk Who’s Who, Charter Member, 2006.
Best paper, First Asian-Pacific Capital Markets Conference, Seoul, 2006.
Outstanding Academic Contribution to Corporate Governance Award, Drexel University, 2009.
Risk Manager of the year award, Global Association of Risk Professionals, 2009.
Swiss Finance Institute/Banque Privée Espirito Santo Prize 2010.
Trailblazer in Finance Award, 2014.
Reuters, Highly-Cited Researchers, first time in 2014.
Ohio State University, Distinguished Scholar Award, 2016.
Special issue of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance in honor of René M. Stulz.
Best Paper Award, Southern Finance Association Meeting, 2023.
Honorary Doctor of Laws, University College Dublin, 2023.
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
“Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets Act of 2009,” testimony to the House Committee on Financial Services, 2009.
“Oversight of the Mutual Fund Industry: Ensuring Market Stability and Investor Confidence,” Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises, House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, 2011.
BOOKS
Risk Management and Derivatives, Southwestern College Publishing, 2003.
Handbook of the Economics of Finance, volumes 1 and 2, edited with George Constantinides and Milton Harris, North-Holland, 2003.
Handbook of the Economics of Finance, volumes 3 and 4, edited with George Constantinides and Milton Harris, Elsevier, 2003.
International Capital Markets, 3 volumes, edited with Andrew Karolyi, Edward Elgar, 2003.
Readings for the Financial Risk Manager, edited with Richard Apostolik, Wiley, 2004.
Readings for the Financial Risk Manager, edited with Richard Apostolik, Wiley, 2005.
The Risks of Financial Institutions, edited with Mark Carey, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System, co-authored with the Squam Lake Group, Princeton University Press, 2010.
Private markets, public markets, and the 21st century corporation, manuscript in progress.