13-16 December 2017, Vail, CO

Organized by the Finance Faculty of the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business.

We are pleased to invite submissions from all areas of finance to be considered for presentation at the 2017 Colorado Finance Summit. We encourage both theoretical and empirical contributions. We favor early work that has not appeared at other conferences and we favor papers authored by juniors. The final program will consist of 8 to 10 papers, plus a session with presentations by current (2017-2018) job market candidates. At the end of the conference, we will present an award for best paper presentation by a job candidate, as well as an award for the best paper on the regular program.

The conference will be held at the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort, beginning with a reception on the evening of December 13th and ending after the morning session on December 16th. Invited attendees will have ample opportunity to explore Vail, and its outdoor opportunities.

We expect that the conference program will be exciting and innovative, and we anticipate a high level of interaction among the participants, both during and between sessions.

SUBMISSION, NOMINATION AND REGISTRATION DETAILS: The deadline for regular submissions is August 31st. The deadline for PhD nominations is October 15th. Regular submission authors of accepted papers will be notified by mid-October, PhD candidates in the first week of November.

REGULAR SUBMISSIONS: Submissions to the regular program should be sent to the conference email (winterfinance@colorado.edu). Each submission must be accompanied by a fee of $40 to be considered (http://colofinsummit2017.ezregister.com). Please include a reference number for your payment in the submission email.

JOB CANDIDATE NOMINATIONS: The job market session will be selected based on nominations of faculty.

NOMINATING FACULTY: To nominate a 2017-2018 job candidate, send us a message at winterfinance@colorado.edu with the following information:
- A recommendation letter for the job market candidate. If you have already drafted such a letter for the upcoming job market, it is sufficient to attach that letter.
- Contact information and affiliation of the job market candidate.

NOMINATED JOB CANDIDATES: Send a short letter of application to winterfinance@colorado.edu. In this email, the candidate should include the following:
- A pdf of the paper to be presented.
- Your up-to-date curriculum vita.

INTERESTED PARTICIPANTS: If you wish to attend the conference, but do not wish to submit a paper, send us a message to convey your interest. We appreciate it if you let us know well in advance to help with the planning.

PAYMENT OF SUBMISSION FEE: Follow this link to pay your submission fee: http://colofinsummit2017.ezregister.com
- The link will take you to our submission fee vendor webpage. On this page, click Register Now to enter details of your submission and to initiate payment.
- Although you are selecting Register Now, completing this form does not register you for the conference. Invited participants will be asked to register for the conference once the participant list has been finalized and invitations have been sent out.
- Please include your payment reference (invoice) number in the submission email.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: In late October, we will contact invited participants with more detail on the program and how to register for the conference. The conference registration fee will be $300, which includes access to the conference presentations, sessions, receptions, and breakfast on each morning of the conference. We will provide a travel honorarium and waive the registration fee for each of the presenting job market candidates.

PAPER AWARDS: The Burridge Center for Finance is sponsoring two best paper awards for papers presented at the conference: best regular program paper and best PhD program paper. At the conclusion of the conference, we will present these awards based on votes by conference participants, along with a prize of $2000 for best PhD program paper and $1000 for best regular program paper.

CONFERENCE VENUE INFORMATION: Vail Marriott Mountain Resort http://www.marriott.com/hotels/hotel-photos/whrco-vail-marriott-mountain-resort

CONFERENCE WEBSITE: Includes the 2015 and 2016 programs https://sites.google.com/site/coloradofinancesummit/home

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Tony Cookson, Shaun Davies, Edward van Wesep, Diego Garcia

2017 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jawad Addoum, JK Auh, Tania Babina, Markus Balduf, Jesse Blocher, Jonathan Brogaard, David Brown, Andras Danis, Jason Donaldson, Simon Gervais, Thomas Gilbert, Erik Gilje, Vincent Glode, Todd Gormley, Umit Gurun, Barney Hartman-Glaser, Samuel Hartzmark, Rawley Heimer, Sandy Klasa, Chi Liao, Andrew MacKinlay, Adrien Matray, Joshua Mollner, Tyler Muir, Will Mullins, Marina Niessner, Miguel Palacios, Giorgia Piacentino, Jonathan Reuter, Robert Richmond, Matthew Ringgenberg, Ravi Sastry, David Schumacher, Merih Sevilir, Yao Shen, Kelly Shue, Clemens Sialm, David Solomon, Noah Stoffman, Luke Taylor, Shawn Thomas, Michael Weber, Scott Yonker, and Feng Zhang

FURTHER INFORMATION: If you have any additional comments or questions, send us a message at winterfinance@colorado.edu