Call for Papers
Texas Quantitative Finance Festival

October 25-26, 2013, Austin, Texas

The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin is organizing the Texas Quantitative Finance Festival on Friday, October 25th and Saturday, October 26th, 2013. The Festival will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. You are invited to submit papers on any topic in Quantitative Finance. To encourage submission by junior researchers, priority will be given to papers by researchers who have received their Ph.D. after January 1st, 2008. Papers with multiple authors are welcome, but multiple submissions from the same author are not encouraged. The presentation of each paper will be followed by a discussion by a senior researcher in Quantitative Finance.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Submissions must be made by 5 pm, Pacific Time, on August 15th, 2013 by emailing a copy of the paper to: TQFF@mccombs.utexas.edu

The paper should not have been scheduled for publication by August 15th, 2013. All papers must be submitted as PDF files. Please include the email address for the contact author. The papers will be reviewed by a selection committee. Authors of selected papers will be notified by September 15th, 2013.

FURTHER INFORMATION: Domestic travel expenses of presenters will be covered. In addition to the McCombs School of Business, the Festival is sponsored by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

CO-ORGANIZERS:
Kumar Muthuraman
Stathis Tompaidis
Information, Risk, and Operations Management Department
McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station B6500
Austin, TX
USA
Email: TQFF@mccombs.utexas.edu

Visit our website at: http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/events/tqff