The Eastern Finance Association invites you to participate in its 63rd Annual Meeting, to be held at the W Philadelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Wednesday, April 7, to Saturday, April 10, 2027.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: We welcome papers in all areas of finance. Please submit your papers electronically at http://openconf.org/efa2027 by Wednesday, September 30, 2026. The submission fee is $75.
All submitted papers will be double-blind-reviewed by the program committee. Authors of papers and special sessions selected for presentation will be notified in December. For each accepted paper or proposal, at least one author must register for the meeting after the acceptance notification. Additionally, any registered author of an accepted research paper must discuss at least one paper at the meeting.
Those wishing to organize a special session, panel discussion, or tutorial should submit a proposal directly to the VP-Program (vpprogram@easternfinance.org) by the submission deadline.
EFA 2027 DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR: David L. Yermack, the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation at New York University Stern School of Business, will deliver the keynote address on Friday, April 9, and receive the EFA Distinguished Scholar Award for 2027.
EXECUTIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE: We are privileged to have the following distinguished academics serve on our Executive Program Committee, who will ultimately select papers for the conference from recommendations of reviewers:
Paul Calluzzo, Queens University
Priyank Gandhi, Rutgers University
Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University
Sandy Klasa, University of Arizona
Mark Leary, Washington University in St. Louis
Gregory Nini, Drexel University
Lin Peng, Baruch College, City University of New York
Ankur Pareek, Bucknell University
Yiming Qian, University of Connecticut
Harley “Chip” Ryan, Georgia State University
Han Xia, University of Texas at Dallas
Scott Yonker, Cornell University
Xing Zhou, Southern Methodist University
RISING SCHOLARS COMMITTEE: We are 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:
Jessica Bai, Georgetown University
Gustavo Cortes, University of Florida
Pekka Honkanen, University of Georgia
Johannes Klausmann, University of Houston
Nitish Kumar, Rutgers University
Gunjan Seth, University of Southern California
Nishant Vats, Washington University in St. Louis
Mike Woeppel, Indiana University
EARLY CAREER FORUM AND NEW IDEAS SESSIONS:
The Eastern Finance Association will host its Early Career Forum and New Ideas Session beginning at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 2027, as part of the Association’s Annual Meeting. The forum is designed to support the professional development and career success of early-career finance scholars. The program will feature a networking lunch, interactive panel discussions led by distinguished faculty members, and opportunities for participants to present new research ideas and receive constructive feedback from experienced scholars and peers. The forum is open to tenure-track faculty members who have not yet received tenure. Because space may be limited, preference will be given to individuals who earned their PhD within the past seven years. Submitting authors may indicate their own interest in participating, or the interest of one or more coauthors, during the paper submission process. Additional details and participation instructions will be provided in December.
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO SERVE ON THE PROGRAM (REVIEW) COMMITTEE: The success of the annual meeting relies heavily on the dedication of reviewers on the program committee. Committee members will be assigned 6-10 papers to review for possible inclusion in the meeting. I encourage you to volunteer by visiting the conference website (http://openconf.org/efa2027) and following the instructions.
OPPORTUNITY TO SUBMIT TO THE FINANCIAL REVIEW: In collaboration with the Eastern Finance Association (EFA), the co-editors of The Financial Review (FR) invite authors of papers submitted to the 2027 EFA Annual Meeting to also be considered for publication at the journal. When submitting to the conference, authors should indicate if they wish their paper to be considered (at no extra fee) for publication in FR. This dual submission is completely optional. Any papers submitted to the journal will go through a blind review process. This free submission to the journal is also a “no-fault” option, which means that if the FR decides to review the paper and rejects it, the author(s) can submit the paper again to the FR through the normal submission process in the future. Papers submitted must not be under review at any other journals. Details on this journal submission option will be shared with interested authors in October.
We look forward to your participation and a successful meeting!
Simi Kedia
Vice President – Program, Eastern Finance Association
Professor and Albert R. Gamper Chair, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University