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2018 Texas Finance Festival
Call For Papers

April 19-21, 2018, Austin, Texas

The Department of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin and the Review of Financial Studies are delighted to host the 20th Annual Texas Finance Festival (TFF) on April 19-21, 2018 at the Horseshoe Bay Resort in Horseshoe Bay, Texas (outside Austin).

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: You are invited to submit papers on any topic in financial economics. You can submit your papers to: https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Texas-Finance-Festival. To encourage submissions by more junior researchers, priority for presentation slots will be given to papers submitted by researchers who graduated in or after 2011. The deadline for submissions is January 18, 2018 at 2 pm.

The program will be announced in late February. To view programs from prior years, please visit the conference website at: https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Texas-Finance-Festival

DUAL SUBMISSIONS: The TFF and the RFS announce a combined submission process. At your choice, your paper submitted to the TFF also will be considered for publication by the RFS free of charge. Additional information on the dual submission policy can be obtained at http://sfs.org/dualsubmissionpolicy/. When submitting the paper, you must explicitly indicate you are interested in consideration by the RFS. We expect notifications on whether papers proceed in the RFS process to come out in late February.

FURTHER INFORMATION: If you have questions about the conference, please contact the organizers: John M. Griffin and Cesare Fracassi. For any questions about the RFS dual submission process, please contact Itay Goldstein and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Kenneth Ahern (University of Southern California), Audra Boone (Texas Christian University), Christa Bouwman (Texas A&M University), Alex Butler (Rice University), David Chapman (University of Virginia), Joseph Engelberg (University of California-San Diego), Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania), Umit Gurun (University of Texas at Dallas), Bing Han (University of Toronto), Burton Hollifield (Carnegie Mellon University), Paul Irvine (Texas Christian University), Shane Johnson (Texas A&M University), Elena Loutskina (University of Virginia), Christine Parlour (University of California-Berkeley), Amiyatosh Purnanandam (University of Michigan), Alessio Sarretto (University of Texas at Dallas), Tao Shu (University of Georgia), Matthew Spiegel (Yale University), Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (New York University), Kumar Venkataraman (Southern Methodist University), James Weston (Rice University), Jaime Zender (University of Colorado-Boulder), Harold Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas), Sheridan Titman (University of Texas at Austin), and other University of Texas finance faculty.

Posted: 18 Dec 2017