Call for Papers - ITAM Finance Conference

9th ITAM Finance Conference

Mexico City, Mexico, February 28 - 29, 2020

ITAM Department of Business Administration, in partnership with Fundación de Estudios Financieros (FUNDEF), is delighted to host the 9^th ITAM Finance Conference, designed to bring together leading scholars in the field. The conference will be held on Friday February, 28^th, and Saturday morning, February 29^th, 2020. We are delighted to announce that Nicholas Bloom (Stanford) will be our keynote speaker. We invite authors to submit papers from all areas of finance, although we will give special emphasis to papers related to financial markets, expectations, and uncertainty.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Please submit a PDF file no later than November 4^th, 2019

Submit your paper Here

Authors of selected papers will be notified by Late-February. The submission of new work is encouraged.

For additional questions you may contact Felix Matthys (felix.matthys@itam.mx), Jose-Maria Barrero (jose.barrero@itam.mx), Franco Zecchetto (franco.zecchetto@itam.mx), Alex Fakos (alexandros.fakos@itam.mx) or Rick Paul (atanu.paul@itam.mx).

FEES, ACCOMMODATION and ACTIVITIES

Submission fee USD $40 (MXN $800)

A conference fee is charged to cover expenses (MXN$2,500 or US$125 for academics, MXN$5,000 or US$250 for practitioners). The fee covers breakfasts and lunches as well as a dinner, reception on Friday and the trip to the Pyramids of Teotihuacan on Saturday afternoon.

The conference organization will cover the accommodation and conference fee for paper presenters and discussants. All conference participants, including paper presenters, are expected to cover their transportation expenses. Conference participants are eligible for discounted hotel rates (MXN$1,400.00 or about US$70.00 per day) from Thursday February 27th to Sunday February 29th, 2020 at the conference hotel, Camino Real Pedregal, which is a short walk from ITAM's campus.

PREVIOUS CONFERENCE PRESENTERS AND SPEAKERS

Richard Stanton (Berkeley), Neil Pearson (Illinois), Myron Scholes (Stanford University), Andrew Karolyi (Cornell), Fernando Zapatero (USC), Rui Albuquerque (BC), Robert F. Dittmar (Michigan), Lorenzo Garlappi (UBC), Joseph Gerakos (Chicago), Nikolai Roussanov (Wharton), Sorin Sorescu (Texas A&M), Hui Chen (MIT), Andrew Patton (Duke), Bo Becker (Harvard), Chris Parsons (USC), Torben Andersen (Northwestern), Robert Dittmar (Michigan), Jay Huang (PennState), Peter Christoffersen (Toronto), Nikunj Kapadia (Massachusetts), Kris Jacobs (Houston), Tarun Chordia (Emory), Terrance Odean (Berkeley), Neil Pearson (Illinois), Nicolae Garleanu (Berkeley), Alok Kumar (Miami), Viktor Todorov (Northwestern), Stephen Figlewski (NYU).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jules H. Van Binsbergen, Wharton

Mikhail Chernov, UCLA

Pierre Collin-Dufresne, SFI

Jennifer Conrad, North Carolina

Robert Dittmar, Michigan

Renata Herrerias, ITAM

Kris Jacobs, Houston

Christopher Jones, USC

Andrew Karolyi, Cornell

Ulrike Malmendier, Berkeley

Felix Matthys, ITAM