Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

The 35th Asian Finance Association Annual Conference

June 26 - 27, 2023 (Mon - Tue), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) cordially invites submission of research papers in all areas of finance to the Association's 2023 Annual Conference. The University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) will host the conference. The AsianFA Annual Conference provides an open platform for finance scholars and practitioners worldwide to meet and share their recent research and exchange ideas and information on new developments in finance research. We look forward to a high-quality conference. The majority of the sessions will include papers selected through open competition. The papers will be double-blind-reviewed by a committee of established researchers.

CONFERENCE THEME: 

Papers in all areas of finance are welcome, including but not limited to asset pricing, corporate finance, corporate governance, derivative, financial crisis, financial intermediation, international finance, sustainable finance and market microstructure. Accepted papers are eligible for several categories of best paper awards, as shown below, which will be selected by various Award Committees.

BEST PAPER AWARDS: The conference will offer multiple categories of best paper awards. 

SPECIAL ISSUE OF PACIFIC BASIN FINANCE JOURNAL: Authors will have the option to explicitly nominate their paper to be considered for publication in a Special Issue of the Pacific Basin Finance Journal. Further details regarding the special issue process (which will include separate manuscript reviews & revisions for those selected) will be forthcoming in due course.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: 

• Paper status: only completed papers should be considered. 

• Volunteer requirements: Submitting a paper to the Asian FA Annual Conference indicates an acceptance of the condition that you may be required to act as the discussant of another paper and/or session chair.

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 15th, 2023 (US Pacific time). 

SUBMISSION FORMAT: Please submit 1) a blind copy of the manuscript without author information, and 2) a separate file for the cover page containing the paper title, abstract and authors' contact information. Please send PDF or MS Word version only.

DECISION COMMUNICATION: May 05th, 2023

Due to a significant number of submissions, the review stage takes longer than expected. Therefore, we have extended the deadline for decision communication to May 20th, 2023.

QUERIES: For questions, please email one of the program co-chairs below.

Robin Chou rchou@nccu.edu.tw

Bo Hui Zhang, bohuizhang@cuhk.edu.cn

Xuan Vinh Vo, vinhvx@ueh.edu.vn