First Annual Isenberg School of Management Finance Conference

First Annual Isenberg School of Management Finance Conference

The Department of Finance at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, is delighted to host the 1st Annual Isenberg School of Management Finance Conference on Friday, May 9, 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to invite submissions from all areas of finance for consideration for presentation. We encourage both theoretical and empirical contributions and particularly welcome early-stage work that has not been presented at other conferences. 

To Submit a Paper

To submit a paper, please complete the online form and make your $60 USD per paper payment by February 1, 2025. Submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the conference program committee, and authors of accepted papers will be notified by late February 2025. The University will cover hotel and transportation for those who are accepted to present.

Keynote Speaker

Bryan Kelly

Bryan Kelly is the Frederick Frank ’54 and Mary C. Tanner Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management and Head of Machine Learning at AQR Capital Management. He is also a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Associate Director of Yale SOM’s International Center for Finance. Professor Kelly’s primary research fields are asset pricing, machine learning, and financial econometrics.

Conference Program Committee

• Kerry Back (Rice University)
• Federico Bandi (Johns Hopkins University)
• Svetlana Bryzgalova (London Business School)
• Fousseni Chabi-Yo (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 
• Hui Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Riccardo Colacito (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 
• Lin William Cong (Cornell University)
• Maryam Farboodi  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Vincent Glode (University of Pennsylvania)
• Bing Liang (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Michelle Lowry (Drexel University)
• Marco Machiavelli (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Semyon Malamud (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
• Nadya Malenko (Boston College)
• Alan Moreira (University of Rochester)
• Anya Mkrtchyan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Dmitry Muravyev (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Markus Pelger (Stanford University)
• Lukas Schmid (University of Southern California)
• Mila Getmansky Sherman (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Kelly Shue (Yale School of Management)
• Margarita Tsoutsoura (Washington University in St. Louis)
• Andrea Vedolin (Boston University)
• Annette Vissing-Jorgensen (Federal Reserve Board) 

Fees

Note: Attendees without university affiliations will be required to pay a nominal fee, while those with university affiliations may attend for free.

University-affiliated attendees = $0.00 (Dinner = $50.00)

Industry attendees = $250 per registrant (Dinner = $50.00)

Conference Dinner

If you wish to attend the conference dinner the fee is $50 per guest. To register, please follow the link included in the conference registration confirmation email. 

Lodging

The Hotel UMass is conveniently located on the Amherst campus and a number of rooms have been held at a special rate of $179 per night for Thursday 5/8 and $269 per night for Friday 5/9. Book your room before April 10th to take advantage of these special rates (while rooms remain).

Contact Us

Questions?  Please contact Natalie Rubanksa at nrubanska@isenberg.umass.edu