The Eastern Finance Association held its 61st Annual Meeting, at the W Philadelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Wednesday, April 2, to Saturday, April 5, 2025.
The program is online here.
EFA 2025 DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR: Jonathan Karpoff, Professor of Finance and Business Economics and Washington Mutual Endowed Chair in Innovation at the University of Washington, delivered the keynote address and received the EFA Distinguished Scholar Award for 2025.
EXECUTIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE: We were privileged to have the following distinguished academics serve on our Executive Program Committee, who selected papers for the conference from recommendations from the Program Committee:
Christoph Herpfer (University of Virginia – Darden)
Janet Gao (Georgetown University)
Kim Cornaggia (Penn State University)
Christa Bouwman (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 were 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)
We thank those who participated and made our meeting successful!
Clifton Green, Vice President – Program (vpprogram@easternfinance.org)
2025 VP – Program
John W. McIntyre Professor of Finance
Goizueta Business School
Emory University