SIRCA wishes to congratulate Andrew Ainsworth (University of Sydney) and Adrian D. Lee (University of Technology, Sydney) on their paper titled “Waiting costs and limit order book liquidity: Evidence from the ex-dividend deadline in Australia”. This paper was published in the Journal of Financial Markets (Sept. 2014) and the winner of the Philip Brown Prize (2014) as the Best Published Paper using SIRCA data in an A* journal in the previous calendar year.

This prize recognises the significant contribution Philip Brown made in the establishment of SIRCA and the work he did in developing databases used for finance and accounting research. SIRCA were honoured for Philip Brown to personally award the 2014 Prize to Andrew Ainsworth at the AFAANZ conference in Hobart, Tasmania.