CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
2015 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
MIDWEST FINANCE ASSOCIATION
Chicago, March 4-7, 2015
Westin Chicago River North Hotel
Tom Nohel, Program Chair, invites members and friends of the MFA to submit papers for
presentation at our 64th Annual Meeting. Papers on any topic in finance will be considered. The
meeting will be held at the Westin Chicago River North Hotel.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Randall Kroszner, Norman R. Bobins Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance, MIT
Phillip Goldstein, Principal and Founder, Bulldog Investors
SUBMISSION AND REVIEW OF PAPERS:
The submission deadline is October 1, 2014. Papers for the meeting will be reviewed
anonymously and authors will be notified of the decision by November 15, 2014. We also invite
volunteers to participate as discussants and session chairs.
PROGRAM TRACK CHAIRS:
Wolfgang Bessler, University of Giessen
Laurence Booth, University of Toronto
Yong Chen, Texas A&M
Sanjay Deshmukh, DePaul University
Jon Garfinkel, University of Iowa
Re-Jin Guo, University of Illinois at Chicago
Swasti Gupta-Mukherjee, Loyola University
David Haushalter, Penn State University
Jean Helwege, University of S. Carolina
Christine Jiang, Univ. of Memphis
Ambrus Kecskes, York University
Jaeuk Khil, Hanyang University
Tim Kruse, Xavier University
Jose Liberti, DePaul University
Sonya Lim, DePaul University
Ann Sherman, DePaul University
Sophie Shive, Notre Dame
Noah Stoffman, Indiana University
Yisong Tian, York University
Steve Todd, Loyola University
John Wald, UT San Antonio
Mark Walker, North Carolina State
Jay Wang, University of Oregon
Lu Zheng, UC-Irvine
NOTE: We are pleased to announce that the Quarterly Journal of Finance will publish a special
issue associated with the conference. Visit the QJF’s website for details on the special issue at:
http://www.worldscientific.com/page/qjf/callforpapers01
Further information about the conference is available at: http://www.midwestfinance.org