The Eastern Finance Association held its 59th Annual Meeting in person at the Renaissance Hotel in Asheville, NC from Wednesday, March 29, to Saturday, April 1, 2023.
EFA 2023 DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR: Professor Jennifer Conrad, the Dalton McMichael Distinguished Professor of Finance at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler School of Business, gave the keynote address and was presented with the EFA Distinguished Scholar Award for 2023.
EXECUTIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE: We thank the following distinguished academics who served as our Executive Program Committee and selected papers for the conference from recommendations provided by our Program Committee:
Jennie Bai (Georgetown University)
Nicolas P.B. Bollen (Vanderbilt University)
Alexander W. Butler (Rice University)
Ryan Davies (Babson College)
Daniel W. Green (Harvard University)
Simi Kedia (Rutgers University)
Jeffrey Pontiff (Boston College)
Annette B. Poulsen (University of Georgia)
Andy Puckett (University of Tennessee)
Duane J. Seppi (Carnegie Mellon University)
Elena Simintzi (University of North Carolina)
Margarita Tsoutsoura (Cornell University)
Albert Y. Wang (Auburn University)
Ting Xu (University of Virginia / University of Toronto)
RISING SCHOLARS COMMITTEE: We were fortunate to have the following junior faculty serve as our Rising Scholars Committee and contribute to the programming of the conference, including organizing special events and selecting awards:
Aymeric Bellon (University of North Carolina)
Kim Cramer (London School of Economics)
Fotis Grigoris (Indiana University)
Sebastian Hillenbrand (Harvard Business School)
Pekka Honkanen (University of Georgia)
Amy Wang Huber (Rice University)
Zhongling (Danny) Qin (Auburn University)
Yessenia Tellez (Virginia Tech)
Milena Wittwer (Boston College)
We appreciate your support of our meeting!
Marc Lipson, Vice President – Program (vpprogram@easternfinance.org)
2023 VP – Program
Professor of Finance
Darden Business School, University of Virginia