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8th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference - RFS DUAL SUBMISSION
Call For Papers

December 16 - 17, 2017, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA

http://umbfc.bus.miami.edu

The School of Business Administration at the University of Miami is organizing its eighth Behavioral Finance Conference. The conference will be held at the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables, Florida. The conference is sponsored by the Department of Finance at the University of Miami. MALCOLM BAKER from Harvard University will be the keynote speaker.

The organizing committee is also glad to announce that Review of Financial Studies (RFS) will be sponsoring the conference. This allows authors who submit papers to opt for the DUAL SUBMISSION option. The sponsoring Editor is LAUREN COHEN. See below for more details.

SUBMISSIONS: Papers from all areas of behavioral finance and economics will be considered. Researchers from other related disciplines such as experimental finance and neuro-finance are encouraged to submit a paper. We also encourage submissions from junior researchers and doctoral students. In addition to the regular paper presentations, we will have 2-4 short doctoral student presentations. All authors for these "doctoral" papers must be current doctoral students and not coauthored with faculty.

The program for last year's conference is available at http://bus.miami.edu/umbfc/2016-conference

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: George Korniotis, U Miami (Chair)
Jawad Addoum, Cornell
Malcolm Baker, Harvard
Brad Barber, UC Davis
Nick Barberis, Yale
Peter Bossaerts, Melbourne
Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton
Tim Burch, U Miami
Indraneel Chakraborty, U Miami
James Choi, Yale
Lauren Cohen, Harvard
Henrik Cronqvist, U Miami
Stefanos Delikouras, U Miami
Doug Emery, U Miami
Simon Gervais, Duke
William Goetzmann, Yale
John Graham, Duke
John Griffin, UT-Austin
Bing Han, U Toronto
Cam Harvey, Duke and U Miami
David Hirshleifer, UC Irvine
Harrison Hong, Columbia
Matti Keloharju, Aalto U
Alok Kumar, U Miami
Charles Lee, Stanford
Chris Malloy, Harvard
Toby Moskowitz, Yale
Terrance Odean, UC-Berkeley
Ville Rantala, U Miami
Jay Ritter, Florida
Paul Schultz, Notre Dame
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, UC-Berkley
Scott Weisbenner, Illinois
Jeff Wurgler, NYU
Wei Xiong, Princeton
Fernando Zapatero, USC

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: To submit a paper, please visit http://bus.miami.edu/umbfc/paper-submission. Papers that are in an early stage (but completed) will be considered. Please do not submit a paper that has been accepted or close to being accepted for publication in a journal.

Submission Deadline: EXTENDED to August 8th, 2017. Authors of selected papers will be notified by mid-September, 2017.

RFS PARTNERSHIP: The Miami Behavioral Finance Conference and the Review of Financial Studies announce a combined submission process. At your option, your paper submitted to the Miami Behavioral Conference will in addition be considered for publication by the RFS free of charge. The rules for this dual submission process are as follows:
1. You must expressly indicate you are interested in consideration by the RFS.
2. If you have already submitted your paper, you can log in to your submission and opt in for the dual submission option.
3. At the discretion of the RFS Sponsoring Editor, a small number of dual submissions will be invited to submit to the RFS. The RFS will waive the fee on such submissions, and have the submission formally reviewed. In this case the paper's author will receive a copy of the RFS reviewer's report.
4. Papers submitted for dual consideration must not be under review at another journal or the RFS, nor can they be considered for dual submission if previously rejected by the RFS.
5. In the event that a dual submission that has been invited to submit to the RFS is subsequently rejected, its authors have the option to submit a future version of their paper to the RFS without prejudice.
6. While under consideration as a dual submission by the Miami Behavioral Conference and the RFS, a paper may not be submitted to another journal (or the RFS) until the author has been notified of the dual submission outcome.

CONFERENCE FORMAT: The conference will take place on December 16 to 17. We will have 6-7 papers on day 1 (December 16) of the conference and 4-5 papers on day 2 (December 17). Each presenter will have 20-25 minutes to present the paper, followed by a 15-20 minute discussion. We are planning to organize a few social events at the end of day 1 followed by a conference dinner. The conference will conclude on December 17 in the afternoon.

ACCEPTANCE RATE: We typically receive about 200 submissions and accept 10 to 12 papers for the conference. Our plan is to accept 10 to 12 papers for the 2017 conference.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: We have negotiated reduced rates at a hotel in Coral Gables and we encourage staying at the conference hotel since we will arrange transportation to the University of Miami from the conference hotel. Please let us know if you need financial assistance since we have a limited budget to cover travel expenses for presenters and discussants. Note that the registration fee is waived for presenters and discussants.

If you are interested in participating, please register for the conference before November 15th, 2017, at: http://umbfc.bus.miami.edu

For additional information about the conference, please email :umbfc@miami.edu. You can also contact the conference organizer, George Korniotis, at gkorniotis@miami.edu or the graduate student fellow, William Bazley, at wbazley@bus.miami.edu

Posted: 28 Jul 2017