The AFA is pleased to congratulate Indira Puri, the inaugural recipient of the Rick Green Prize, for her paper “Simplicity and Risk”, published in the April 2025 issue of the Journal of Finance.
Indira Puri is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business and a Faculty Affiliate in the NYU Department of Economics. Her research examines decision-making in financial markets, with a particular focus on revisiting foundational results in finance. Puri earned a B.A.S. in Mathematics and Economics from Stanford University in 2017, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford in 2019, and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2023. She has received numerous honors, including the Yuki Arai Prize, the Top Finance Graduate Award, and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship.
The Rick Green Prize promotes the work of early-career researchers. The prize is dedicated to Rick Green, an esteemed former editor of the Journal of Finance known for his unwavering support of students and junior faculty. Eligible papers are those published in the Journal of Finance where all researchers are less than 7 years out from their PhD graduation at the time of paper submission. The prize is awarded annually.