Tracks and Topics

Authors submitting papers to the EFA 2018 can select one track and multiple topics. For information on how to submit a paper, please visit our guidelines page.

Tracks Overview

Asset Pricing - Empirical (APE)
Asset Pricing - Theory (APT)
Behavioral Finance and Household Finance (BH)
Corporate Finance and Governance - Empirical (CFGE)
Corporate Finance and Governance - Theory (CFGT)
Financial Econometrics (FE)
Financial Intermediation and Institutions - Empirical (FIIE)
Financial Intermediation and Institutions - Theory (FIIT)
Financial Markets General (FMG)
International Finance (IF)

Asset Pricing - Empirical (APE)

APE-01 - Equities: Prices and returns
APE-02 - Stock return anomalies
APE-03 - Return predictability
APE-04 - Factor models
APE-05 - Tests of asset pricing models
APE-06 - Market efficiency
APE-07 - Portfolio choice, investments, asset allocation
APE-08 - Monetary and macroeconomic effects
APE-09 - Institutional effects
APE-10 - Financial crisis
APE-11 - Government policy and regulation
APE-12 - Leverage effects
APE-13 - Liquidity, frictions, limits to arbitrage
APE-14 - Learning, information processing and transmission
APE-15 - Volatility, risk management
APE-16 - Fixed income securities: prices and returns
APE-17 - Commodities: prices and returns
APE-18 - Derivatives and continuous-time models
APE-19 - Alternative asset classes

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Asset Pricing - Theory (APT)

APT-01 - General
APT-02 - Equities
APT-03 - Market efficiency
APT-04 - Portfolio choice, investments, asset allocation
APT-05 - Asset returns in macroeconomic models
APT-06 - Government policy and regulation
APT-07 - Monetary and macroeconomic effects
APT-08 - Leverage effects
APT-09 - Liquidity, frictions, limits to arbitrage
APT-10 - Learning, information processing and transmission
APT-11 - Volatility, risk management
APT-12 - Fixed income securities: prices and returns
APT-13 - Commodities
APT-14 - Derivatives, continuous-time models, and mathematical finance
APT-15 - Alternative asset classes

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Behavioral Finance and Household Finance (BH)

BH-01 - Empirical
BH-02 - Theoretical
BH-03 - Asset pricing
BH-04 - Corporate finance
BH-05 - Financial intermediation
BH-06 - Experimental and neuro finance
BH-07 - Individual traders/trading strategies
BH-08 - Households
BH-09 - Underlying principles

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Corporate Finance and Governance - Empirical (CFGE)

CFGE-01 - Capital structure, financing policy
CFGE-02 - Security design
CFGE-03 - Payout policy
CFGE-04 - Testing theoretical models
CFGE-05 - Event studies
CFGE-06 - Product markets
CFGE-07 - Effects of regulation and monetary policy
CFGE-08 - Financial risk and risk management
CFGE-09 - Investment policy, capital budgeting
CFGE-10 - Cost of capital, valuation
CFGE-11 - Financial constraints
CFGE-12 - Taxes
CFGE-13 - Patents and innovation
CFGE-14 - Security issues
CFGE-15 - Mergers, acquisitions, corporate control
CFGE-16 - Restructuring, organizational structure
CFGE-17 - Board composition and structure
CFGE-18 - Managerial compensation
CFGE-19 - Corporations and human capital
CFGE-20 - Risk management
CFGE-21 - Ownership structure
CFGE-22 - Investor activism
CFGE-23 - Financial distress, bankruptcy, liquidation
CFGE-24 - Contracting mechanisms
CFGE-25 - Corporate disclosure and accounting
CFGE-26 - Politics and regulation
CFGE-27 - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
CFGE-28 - Corporate culture, gender and diversity
CFGE-29 - Entrepreneurship

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Corporate Finance and Governance - Theory (CFGT)

CFGT-01 - Mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, product markets
CFGT-02 - Capital structure, financing policy, security design
CFGT-03 - Ownership structure
CFGT-04 - Contract and game theoretical models
CFGT-05 - Dynamic models
CFGT-06 - Corporate disclosure, accounting, law, regulation
CFGT-07 - Financial risk and risk management
CFGT-08 - Investment policy, capital budgeting, cost of capital, valuation
CFGT-09 - Security issues
CFGT-10 - CEOs, boards, executive compensation
CFGT-11 - Governance theory-general

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Financial Econometrics (FE)

FE-01 - Model testing
FE-02 - Quasi-experimental research designs
FE-03 - Time series
FE-04 - Volatility and correlations
FE-05 - Other

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Financial Intermediation and Institutions - Empirical (FIIE)

FIIE-01 - Banks and depository institutions
FIIE-02 - Bank lending
FIIE-03 - Central banks
FIIE-04 - Ratings and rating agencies
FIIE-05 - Financial stability and systemic risk
FIIE-06 - Bank regulation and supervision
FIIE-07- Monetary and central bank effects
FIIE-08 - Government policy and regulation
FIIE-09 - Bank risk management
FIIE-10 - Collateral
FIIE-11 - Investment banking, venture capital, private equity, brokerage
FIIE-12 - Financial instruments
FIIE-13 - Analysts
FIIE-14 - Asset management, mutual funds
FIIE-15 - Hedge funds
FIIE-16 - Pension funds, endowment funds
FIIE-17 - Insurance
FIIE-18 - Financial history
FIIE-19 - Financial technology (FinTech)
FIIE-20 - Financial networks
FIIE-21 - Crowdfunding

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Financial Intermediation and Institutions - Theory (FIIT)

FIIT-01 - Contract and game theoretical models
FIIT-02 - Dynamic models
FIIT-03 - Banks and depository institutions
FIIT-04 - Central banks
FIIT-05 - Financial stability and systemic risk
FIIT-06 - Bank regulation and supervision
FIIT-07 - Money, credit, collateral
FIIT-08 - Investment banking, venture capital, private equity, brokerage, analysts
FIIT-09 - Financial instruments
FIIT-10 - Market design
FIIT-11 - Funds and asset management
FIIT-12 - Intermediation and institutions vs markets
FIIT-13 - Financial technology (FinTech)
FIIT-14 - Financial networks
FIIT-15 - Other financial institutions / Crowdfunding