2026 Annual Carey Finance Conference
Join us in person on Thursday afternoon, October 29, and Friday, October 30, 2026, at our Harbor East location: 100 International Drive, Baltimore, MD. The conference includes a dinner on Thursday evening.
Keynote speaker: We are pleased to announce that Arvind Krishnamurthy, the John S. Osterweis Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business, will deliver the keynote address.
Call for papers: We invite submissions of completed papers from all areas of finance. We are particularly interested in early-stage papers that would benefit from feedback and discussion.
Program: The conference will consist of eight papers. Previous conference programs can be found here: 2025; 2024.
Session for doctoral students: Doctoral students without faculty co-authors are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration in a special lightning-round session on Thursday, October 29. Please indicate your interest in this session when you submit your paper.
Submissions: For instructions on how to submit your paper and pay the submission fee, please visit our conference page at
https://www.brownbag.org/conference/carey-finance-2026
The submission deadline is Sunday, June 14, 2026. We anticipate notifying the authors of selected papers in August 2026.
Support for presenters: We will provide support for economy class travel and lodging for all presenters and discussants.
Awards: Carey Business School will award $1,500 prizes for the Best Paper and the Best Discussant based on the votes of conference participants.
We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you in October. For any questions, please feel free to contact the organizers. Contact info is provided below.
Key dates:
- Submission deadline: Sunday, June 14, 2026
- Acceptance notification: August 2026
- Conference: October 29-30, 2026
Scientific committee
- Pat Akey, ESSEC Business School
- Daniel Andrei, McGill University
- Juliane Begenau, Stanford University
- Fousseni Chabi-Yo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Briana Chang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Ric Colacito, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Dragana Cvijanović, Cornell University
- Francesco D'Acunto, Georgetown University
- Jesse Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Winston Wei Dou, University of Pennsylvania
- Greg Duffee, Johns Hopkins University
- Arpit Gupta, New York University
- Sabrina T. Howell, Harvard University
- Zhengyang Jiang, Northwestern University
- Wenhao Li, University of Southern California
- Dmitry Livdan, University of California, Berkeley
- Victor Lyonnet, University of Michigan
- Nadya Malenko, Boston College
- Sean Myers, University of Pennsylvania
- Lakshmi Naaraayanan, London Business School
- Pierre Noual, Campbell & Company
- Mirela Sandulescu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Gregor Schubert, University of California, Los Angeles
- Janis Skrastins, University of Utah
- Jan Starmans, Stockholm School of Economics
- Margarita Tsoutsoura, Washington University in St. Louis
- Andrea Vedolin, Boston University
- Sumudu Watugala, Indiana University
- Mindy Z. Xiaolan, University of Texas at Austin
- Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge
Program Chairs
- Pierre Noual, Campbell & Company
- Alessandro Rebucci, Johns Hopkins University
Organizers
- Yu An ([email protected]), Johns Hopkins University
- Vadim Elenev ([email protected]), Johns Hopkins University
- Deeksha Gupta ([email protected]), Johns Hopkins University
Sponsor
Campbell & Company