Thank You for Attending the EFA 2025 Annual Meeting
On behalf of the EFA 2025 team, thank you to everyone who contributed to this year’s conference — including the program committees, presenters, discussants, session chairs, participants, partners, and staff.
We appreciated the thoughtful presentations, discussions, and engagement throughout the event. Your contributions sparked meaningful conversations, new connections, and ideas that will continue to shape our community long after the conference.
We’re grateful for your participation and hope you found the conference informative and worthwhile.
See you next year in Ghent!
Best wishes,
Laurent, Helen, Aurélie, Laura, and the Local Organizing Committee
EFA 2025 Best Conference Paper Prize
The Quiet Hand of Regulation: Harnessing Uncertainty and Disagreement
by Daniel Andrei and Lorenzo Garlappi
The Engelbert Dockner Memorial Prize for the Best Paper by Young Researchers
Long Rates, Life Insurers, and Credit Spreads
by Ziang Li
Runner Up
Insider Trading With Options
by Matteo Vacca
2025 Pagano and Zechner Prize
Do Private Firms (Mis)Learn from the Stock Market?
by Dong Yan
Runner Up
Is One Share/One Vote Optimal
by Denis Gromb and Viral Acharya
2025 IQAM Prize
Is News Really News: The Effects of Selective Disclosure Regulations
by Brent Kitchens, Robert Parham, and Chris Yung
Runner Up
Humans in Charge of Trading Robots: The First Experiment
by Elena Asparouhova, Peter Bossaerts, Xiaoqin Cai, Kristian Rotaru, Nitin Yadav, and Wenhao Yang
2025 Review of Finance Distinguished Referee Awards
- Scott Cederburg
- Lawrence Jin
- Todd Keister
EFA Doctoral Tutorial Best Paper Prize
Synthetic Dollar Funding
by Umang Khetan
EFA 2025
SKEMA Business School is proud to organize the 52nd Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association. The meeting will be held from 20 to 23 August, 2025.
Laurent Calvet
EFA 2025 Program Chair
SKEMA Business School
Helen Bollaert
Head of the Local Organizing Committee
SKEMA Business School
