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European Finance Association's mission is to foster a professional society for Finance academics, practitioners, and doctoral students interested in research areas such as financial management and financial theory along with their applications. EFA serves its community of members based in Europe and elsewhere in the world as an evolving professional network for the exchange of ideas... » read more

Membership

European Finance Association (EFA) 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.

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Review of Finance

The Review of Finance (RF) 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.

» More about the RF

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Doctoral Tutorial

The EFA Doctoral Tutorial (EFA-DT) is a one-day event held prior to the EFA Annual Meeting. In 2021, this will be held online.

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.

» More info on the EFA-DT

48^th EFA Annual Meeting 2021 online from Milan

EFA 2021 is organized by Bocconi University and will be held online between August 25–27, 2021. Elena Carletti is the Program Chair. The EFA 2021 conference will follow a virtual format. We regret that we will not be able to see you in person at the Bocconi University, due to the still high uncertainty concerning the evolution of the pandemic and the need to decide in advance for organisational purposes, we had no other choice other than hosting the conference in a safe and accessible virtual environment. The conference will run online from Wednesday, August 25, to Friday, August 27. On the first day, there will be the online PhD Doctoral Tutorial and networking events. The paper sessions will take place on the following two days, from about 1 pm to 9 pm Central European Time. Notifications for the Doctoral Events will be sent out by the end of May - early June at the latest.

More information concerning the program and registration will be available soon. efa2021.efa-meetings.org.

EFA 2021 Bocconi Milan

Paper submission

Papers have been reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Authors have been notified.

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 24-25, 2021. The PhD Doctoral Workshop will take place on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 afternoons - Central European Time. The online PhD Doctoral Tutorial and networking events dates and timings to be confirmed. Notifications for the Doctoral Events will be sent out by early June at the latest. More information concerning the program and registration will be available soon. Times to be confirmed in due course - but sessions will be virtual.

» Overview of EFA Annual Meetings

EFA News

» New RF Managing Editor Marcin Kacperczyk appointed to succeed Alex Edmans in January 2023.

» New EFA Vice-President Elena Carletti has been elected Vice-President of EFA.

» New EFA Vice-President Elect Xavier Vives has been elected Vice-President Elect of EFA.

» New EFA Directors Ulf Axelson, Lubos Pastor & Ivo Welch from January 2021.

» New RF Editors Daniel Paravisini & Chris Parsons from January 2021.

» New RF Associate Editors Brian Melzer, Jacopo Ponticelli & Rick Townsend from January 2021.

» 47th Annual Meeting EFA 2020 was a great success with more than 2,800 registered participants - our first virtual conference.

» 48th Annual Meeting EFA 2021 will be online August 25-28, 2021 from Milan. Registration will open soon.

» EFA Doctoral Events will be online August 25, 2021 from Milan. Reviewing still underway.

» 49th Annual Meeting EFA 2022 August 24-27, 2022, IESE Business School, University of Navarra in Barcelona, Spain.

» Call for Papers RF Special Issue on Sustainable Finance.

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