FARFE Awards Ninth Ross Prize to Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi for Research on Effect of Technological Revolutions on Stock Prices

Published on September 29, 2025

The Foundation for Advancement of Research in Financial Economics (FARFE) has awarded its ninth Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics to the paper “Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices,” written by Lubos Pastor, Charles P. McQuaid Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow, and Pietro Veronesi, the Deputy Dean for Faculty and Sherman and Vivian Chao Distinguished Service Professor of Finance. 

Read the full announcement article at the SSRN website. 

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