8th Annual World Symposium on Investment Research - Call for Papers
Conference dates
04 May 2025 - 05 May 2025
Location
Washington, D.C.
Description
The 8th Annual World Symposium on Investment Research will take place in Washington, D.C. on May 4-5, 2025 at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel.
The authors are invited to submit unpublished papers on any topic related to investments that are not under journal revision (R&R) or scheduled for the AFA-2025, and have not appeared at earlier AFA or WFA programs. Possible topics include: Arbitrage in Asset Markets, Corporate Decisions and Asset Returns, Firm Governance and Valuation, Global Investment Issues, Hedge Funds and Other Alternative Investments, High-Frequency Trading, Investor Behavior and Performance, Liquidity and Security Returns, Mutual Funds and Pension Funds, Portfolio Rebalancing Strategies, Real Economy and Asset Prices, Return Predictability.
COMMITTEE: Organizers – Amit Goyal (SFI, Lausanne), Sergei Sarkissian (McGill). Reviewers – Patrick Augustin (McGill), Doron Avramov (Hebrew), Turan Bali (Georgetown), Laurent Barras (Luxembourg), Jonathan Brogaard (Utah), Svetlana Bryzgalova (LBS), Winston Dou (Pennsylvania), Simon Gervais (Duke), Anisha Ghosh (McGill), Stefano Giglio (Yale), Michel Habib (SFI, Zurich), Wei Jiang (Emory), Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial), Lars-Alexander Kuehn (Carnegie Mellon), Kai Li (Peking), Christian Lundblad (North Carolina), Paolo Pasquariello (Michigan), Michael Schill (Virginia), David Schumacher (McGill), Mikhail Simutin (Toronto), Raman Uppal (EDHEC), Adrien Verdelhan (MIT), Sunil Wahal (Arizona State), Lu Zhang (Ohio State), Guofu Zhou (Washington-St. Louis), Irina Zviadadze (HEC-Paris)
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: The submission is open until November 20, 2024 (11:59PM UTC-12). At the time of submission, each author also has an option to register for a possible discussant slot in case his/her paper is not selected for the symposium. Other submission details are available at wsir.org.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The submitted papers will be reviewed and ranked by the symposium committee members and ten papers will be selected. The authors will be notified of the selection outcome by January 31, 2025. The online registration will be open at wsir.org from February 20 to April 20, 2025. Symposium participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements. Each discussant receives a small honorarium. Any questions about the symposium should be sent to info@wsir.org.
The authors are invited to submit unpublished papers on any topic related to investments that are not under journal revision (R&R) or scheduled for the AFA-2025, and have not appeared at earlier AFA or WFA programs. Possible topics include: Arbitrage in Asset Markets, Corporate Decisions and Asset Returns, Firm Governance and Valuation, Global Investment Issues, Hedge Funds and Other Alternative Investments, High-Frequency Trading, Investor Behavior and Performance, Liquidity and Security Returns, Mutual Funds and Pension Funds, Portfolio Rebalancing Strategies, Real Economy and Asset Prices, Return Predictability.
COMMITTEE: Organizers – Amit Goyal (SFI, Lausanne), Sergei Sarkissian (McGill). Reviewers – Patrick Augustin (McGill), Doron Avramov (Hebrew), Turan Bali (Georgetown), Laurent Barras (Luxembourg), Jonathan Brogaard (Utah), Svetlana Bryzgalova (LBS), Winston Dou (Pennsylvania), Simon Gervais (Duke), Anisha Ghosh (McGill), Stefano Giglio (Yale), Michel Habib (SFI, Zurich), Wei Jiang (Emory), Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial), Lars-Alexander Kuehn (Carnegie Mellon), Kai Li (Peking), Christian Lundblad (North Carolina), Paolo Pasquariello (Michigan), Michael Schill (Virginia), David Schumacher (McGill), Mikhail Simutin (Toronto), Raman Uppal (EDHEC), Adrien Verdelhan (MIT), Sunil Wahal (Arizona State), Lu Zhang (Ohio State), Guofu Zhou (Washington-St. Louis), Irina Zviadadze (HEC-Paris)
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: The submission is open until November 20, 2024 (11:59PM UTC-12). At the time of submission, each author also has an option to register for a possible discussant slot in case his/her paper is not selected for the symposium. Other submission details are available at wsir.org.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The submitted papers will be reviewed and ranked by the symposium committee members and ten papers will be selected. The authors will be notified of the selection outcome by January 31, 2025. The online registration will be open at wsir.org from February 20 to April 20, 2025. Symposium participants are responsible for their own travel arrangements. Each discussant receives a small honorarium. Any questions about the symposium should be sent to info@wsir.org.