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CFEA 2022

The Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting (CFEA) is an annual conference organized by members of a consortium representing eight universities: Georgia State University, Indiana University, New York University, Rutgers University, Temple University, Tulane University, the University of Maryland and the University of Toronto. It is a highly selective and refereed conference of research papers in financial economics and accounting. The conference aims at bringing together financial economists and accounting scholars to share their research relevant to theory and practice of business, with a special focus on the intersection of the two fields of research.

32nd Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting

November 4 – November 5, 2022
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University

The Departments of Finance and Accounting at the Robinson College of Business are proud to host the 32nd annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, November 4 and 5, 2022, at the Buckhead campus of Georgia State University.

Lubos Pastor, keynote speaker

The keynote speaker for the conference will be:
Ľuboš Pástor, Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. The keynote address will be at the dinner on Friday, November 4, 2022. The title of his presentation is: Steering a Ship in Illiquid Waters: Active Management of Passive Funds.

This annual conference is organized by members of a consortium representing eight universities: Georgia State University, Indiana University, New York University, Rutgers University, Temple University, Tulane University, the University of Maryland and the University of Toronto. The conference convenes financial economists and accounting scholars, practitioners and students from around the US to explore emerging concepts and themes in finance and accounting, with a special focus on the intersection of the two fields of research.

The one-and-a-half-day conference is dedicated to the development of all research methods in finance and accounting, including theory, case studies, archival and experimental work. We invite authors to submit analytical and empirical papers in all areas of finance and accounting.

Submission Fee & Paper Submission

Paper submission is now closed.

Decisions will be made by September 15, 2022. All submitters will be notified via the email address provided in the submission process.

Conference Information and Registration

The conference will start with lunch at noon on Friday, November 4 and end around 4:30pm on Saturday, November 5. There will be a reception and dinner on Friday at the Buckhead Club which is within walking distance of the conference facility (Buckhead campus of Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA – directions given below). There will be two concurrent sessions on Friday and four on Saturday. There will be a total of 45 papers presented (18 each in Accounting and Finance and 9 papers presented in joint Accounting and Finance sessions).

The conference registration fee of $150 MUST BE PAID (all major credit cards accepted) BEFORE you can register for the conference.

Registration fee includes lunch, reception and dinner on Friday and breakfast and lunch on Saturday and all coffee breaks.

Please use the following link to pay the $150 conference registration fee (note the 7 digit order number that will be at the top of the receipt emailed to you. You will need this order number to register for the conference).

After you have paid the conference registration fee, please use the following link to register for the conference (you need the 7 digit order number from the registration fee receipt to start the registration process).

Hotels (all within 5-10 min. walk to the Buckhead Center)

We have not blocked rooms in any hotel for the conference. As a courtesy, we provide below a list of hotels that are within walking distance of our Buckhead facility:

Directions

Directions to Buckhead facility

Program and Papers

Download program and papers