The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School (CUHK Business School), the Review of Asset Pricing Studies (RAPS), and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies (RCFS) invite paper submissions for a conference to be held at CUHK Business School in Hong Kong during December 9-11, 2024. The first one and a half days will comprise the Corporate Finance segment of the program, while the second one and a half days will comprise the Asset Pricing segment of the conference. The middle day could also comprise papers that span both areas, depending on submissions.

Professor Franklin Allen, Professor of Economics and Finance and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London, and Professor Clemens Sialm, Charles E. and Sarah M. Seay Regents Chair in Finance, University of Texas at Austin, will deliver keynote addresses at the conference.

Non-local presenting authors of selected papers and discussants will be offered reimbursement for travel. The reimbursement will be capped at USD 2,000 for those with country of primary affiliation in North America, Europe or Australia/New Zealand. For those with primary affiliation in Asia (except Hong Kong), travel reimbursement will be capped at USD 1,000. Accommodation will be provided by the organizers at the nearby Hyatt Regency hotel for a maximum of 4 nights (December 8-11).

PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors are invited to submit papers in PDF format (including abstract, authors’ affiliations and contact information) by uploading their papers to the following links:

https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13690697
(for submissions to the CUHK-RAPS segment of the program)

https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13690695
(for submissions to the CUHK-RCFS segment of the program)

The submission deadline is August 31, 2024.

DUAL SUBMISSION OPTION: In the submission, authors should indicate if they wish their paper to be considered (at no extra fee) for publication by RAPS or RCFS under the Dual Submission Program. This is a “no-fault” submission option: if the journals review the paper and reject it, the authors may submit it to any SFS journal at a later date as if it was never submitted. See http://sfs.org/dualsubmissionpolicy/ for details.

CONFERENCE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

CUHK-RCFS: Heitor Almeida (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jan Bena (University of British Columbia), Utpal Bhattacharya (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Elena Carletti (Bocconi University), Ling Cen (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jonathan Cohn (University of Texas at Austin), Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics), Sudipto Dasgupta (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Andrew Ellul (Indiana University), Isil Erel (Ohio State University), Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics), Rawley Heimer (Arizona State University), Sabrina Howell (New York University), Vasso Ioannidou (Bayes Business School), Dirk Jenter (London School of Economics), Erica Li (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business), Elena Loutskina (University of Virginia), Michelle Lowry (Drexel University), Andrey Malenko (Boston College), Robert Marquez (University of California, Davis), Ron Masulis (University of New South Wales), Abhiroop Mukherjee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Paige Oiumet (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Steven Ongena (University of Zurich), Giorgia Piacentino (University of Southern California), Adriano Rampini (Duke University), Martin Schmalz (University of Oxford), Tao Shu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Kelly Shue (Yale School of Management), Tracy Wang (University of Minnesota), Constantine Yannelis (Chicago Booth School of Business), Ayako Yasuda (University of California, Davis), Xiaoyun Yu (Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance), Alminas Zaldokas (National University of Singapore)

CUHK-RAPS: Jie Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Kalok Chan (City University of Hong Kong), Darwin Choi (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Hyun-Soo Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Adlai Fisher (University of British Columbia), Zhenyu Gao (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Bing Han (Chinese University of Hong Kong & University of Toronto), Zhiguo He (Stanford University), Shiyang Huang (University of Hong Kong), Byoung-Hyoun Hwang (Nanyang Technological University), Wenxi Jiang (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Chotibhak Jotikasthira (Southern Methodist University), Marcin Kacperzck (Imperial College), Yan Ji (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Ron Kaniel (University of Rochester), John Kuong (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Hong Liu (Washington University in St. Louis), Dong Lou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Petro Matos (University of Virginia), Philippe Mueller (University of Warwick), Jun Pan (Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance), Neil D. Pearson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore), Adam Reed (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Tao Shu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Clemens Sialm (University of Texas at Austin), Elvira Sojli (University of New South Wales), Johan Sulaeman (National University of Singapore), Dragon Tang (University of Hong Kong), Paul Whelan (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Yizhou Xiao (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Liyan Yang (University of Toronto), Chen Yao (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jianfeng Yu (Tsinghua University), Hong Zhang (Singapore Management University), Xiaoyan Zhang (Tsinghua University)