Membership
European Finance Association members are part of a global network of more than 2,000 professionals involved in the high-level research, study, teaching, and practice of Finance.
All current members are eligible to submit a paper to the conference EFA Annual Meeting and receive free online access to the Review of Finance.
Review of Finance
The Review of Finance is a peer-reviewed journal that competes for the best articles in the field of finance and aims at a wide circulation and visibility in the profession. The journal’s editorial policy is guided by two criteria: quality and innovation.
The board welcomes submissions of papers in both new and established fields in financial economics.
Doctoral Tutorial
The EFA Doctoral Tutorial is a one-day event held prior to the EFA Annual Meeting.
This event is an intensive and competitive session designed for PhD students in Finance nearing the end of their thesis. Only the top eight submissions per year are accepted. The best paper is awarded the Best EFA Doctoral Tutorial Paper Prize.
48th EFA Annual Meeting - Call for papers
Invitation to submit papers to be considered for presentation at the 48th EFA Annual Meeting in August 2021 in Milan.
The submission deadline is February 1, 2021 at midnight Pacific Time (GMT+8). Scroll down for more details.
EFA 2021 is organized by Bocconi University and is scheduled on August 25–28, 2021. Our main concern is to run the conference in a safe and relaxed environment. We will therefore monitor the evolution of the pandemic closely and will choose the format (i.e., residential or virtual) of the conference accordingly. In any case, we will have remote-participation alternatives, so do not hesitate to submit your work! We will post updates on the conference format at efa2021.efa-meetings.org.
Paper submission procedure
You can submit papers electronically via the EFA 2021 website: . For the paper to be considered, the submitting author must be a member of the European Finance Association in 2021.
Once submitted, you can update your paper up to the deadline of February 1, 2021. Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors will be notified about the outcome of the reviewing process by the end of April 2021.
Keynote speaker
Itay Goldstein, Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Special sessions
EFA 2021 will offer four special sessions organized with institutional partners:
- Banca d’Italia on Macro-financial feedbacks and their policy implications after the Covid-19 crisis.
- Bank for International Settlements on Green Finance.
- European Central Bank on Non-bank financial intermediation.
- Norges Bank Investment Management on Understanding the long-run drivers of asset prices.
The papers for these special sessions are chosen from the pool of papers submitted to the conference and undergo the same reviewing process. More information on the special sessions is available here.
Doctoral events
The EFA Annual Meeting hosts two one-day events for doctoral students on August 25, 2021. Submission for these events runs separately and application period is from February 15 to March 15, 2021.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
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EFA News
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» New Editors
Daniel Paravisini and Chris Parsons to start a 3 year term as Editors of the Review of Finance in January 2021.» For Candidates - to view Jobs
» For Institutions - to post Job Openings
» View Calls for Papers and forthcoming events
» New Associate Editors Brian Melzer, Jacopo Ponticelli and Rick Townsend to start as Associate Editors of Review of Finance in January 2021.
» New Vice-President
Elena Carletti has been elected Vice-President of EFA and will be Program Chair of the next EFA annual conference (EFA 2021), to be held in Milan in August 2021. She will become President in 2022.» New Vice-President
Xavier Vives has been elected Vice-President of EFA and will also be Program Chair of the EFA 2022 to be held in Barcelona in August 2022.» 47th Annual Meeting
EFA 2020 was a great success with more than 2,800 registered participants. Thanks to Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki for hosting our first virtual conference.» 48th Annual Meeting Call for Papers
Submit your papers for EFA 2021 to be held on August 25-28, 2021 Thanks to the local organizing team at Bocconi University. https://efa2021.efa-meetings.org/» 49th Annual Meeting
Barcelona, Spain
August 24-27, 2022
IESE Business School, University of Navarra» EFA Doctoral Workshop
The EFA Doctoral Workshop with David Yermack on digital currency and blockchain has been postponed to 2021. Applications will reopen in February 2021.» RF Call for Papers
The submission window for the Review of Finance's Special Issue on China is now open. Guest edited by Zhiguo He and co-edited by Yongxiang Wang. Deadline December 31, 2020.
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