Call for Papers - 61st Annual Eastern Finance Association Meeting

Conference dates

02 Apr 2025 - 05 Apr 2025

Location

Philadelphia, PA

Description

Call for Papers – 61st Annual Eastern Finance Association Meeting (April 2 – 5, 2025)

The Eastern Finance Association invites you to participate in its 61st Annual Meeting, to be held in person at the Philadelphia W Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Wednesday, April 2, to Saturday, April 5, 2025.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: We welcome papers in all areas of finance. Please submit your papers electronically at http://openconf.org/efa2025 by Monday, September 30, 2024. The submission fee is $75.

All submitted papers will be double-blind-reviewed by the program committee. Authors of papers and special sessions selected for presentation will be notified in December. For each accepted paper or proposal, at least one author must register for the meeting after the acceptance notification. Additionally, any registered author of an accepted research paper must discuss at least one paper at the meeting.

Those wishing to organize a special session, panel discussion, or tutorial should submit a proposal directly to the VP-Program (vpprogram@easternfinance.org) by the submission deadline.

EFA 2025 DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR: Jonathan Karpoff, Professor of Finance and Business Economics and Washington Mutual Endowed Chair in Innovation at the University of Washington, will deliver the keynote address and receive the EFA Distinguished Scholar Award for 2025.

EXECUTIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE: We are privileged to have the following distinguished academics serve on our Executive Program Committee, who will ultimately select papers for the conference from recommendations from the Program Committee:

Christoph Herpfer (University of Virginia - Darden)
Janet Gao (Georgetown University)
M. Cecilia Bustamante (University of Maryland)
Kim Cornaggia (Penn State University)
Christa Bouman (Texas A&M University)
Jiekun Huang (University of Illinois)
Deniz Yavuz (Purdue University)
Li Wang (Case Western University)
Justin Birru (Ohio State University)
Jawad M. Addoum (Cornell University)
Kevin Crotty (Rice University)
Sugata Ray (University of Alabama)
Azi Ben-Rephael (Rutgers University)
Baolian Wang (University of Florida)
Katya Malinova (McMaster University)

RISING SCHOLARS COMMITTEE: We are fortunate to have the following junior faculty serve as our Rising Scholars Committee. They will contribute to the programming of the conference, including organizing special events and selecting awards:

Aizhan Anarkulova (co-chair) (Emory University)
Billy Xu (co-chair) (University of Rochester)
Miles Zheng (Texas Christian University)
Manasa Gopal (Georgia Tech)
Minmo Gahng (Cornell University)
Filipe Correia (University of Georgia)
Brittany Almquist Lewis (Washington University – St. Louis)
Vrinda Mittal (University of North Carolina)
Carter Davis (Indiana University)
Thomas Flanagan (Ohio State University)

VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO SERVE ON THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The success of the annual meeting relies heavily on the dedication of the program committee. Members will be assigned 6-10 papers to review for possible inclusion in the meeting. I encourage you to volunteer by visiting the conference website (http://openconf.org/efa2025) and following the instructions.

OPPORTUNITY TO SUBMIT TO THE FINANCIAL REVIEW: In collaboration with the Eastern Finance Association (EFA), the co-editors of The Financial Review (FR) invite authors of papers submitted to the 2025 EFA meeting to also be considered for publication at the journal. This dual submission is completely optional. Any papers submitted to the journal will go through a blind review process. This is a “no-fault” submission option, which means that if the FR decides to review the paper and rejects it, the author(s) can submit the paper to the FR through the normal submission process in the future. Papers submitted must not be under review at any other journals. Details on this journal submission option will be provided during the conference submission process.

We look forward to your participation and a successful meeting!

Clifton Green, Vice President - Program
John W. McIntyre Professor of Finance
Goizueta Business School
Emory University