–Sebastian J. Reinartz and Daniel Urban, Finance conference quality and publication success: A conference ranking
–Sebastian J. Reinartz and Daniel Urban, Finance conference quality and publication success: A conference ranking
THE THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL UTAH WINTER FINANCE CONFERENCE
February 5-7, 2026
CLIFF LODGE, SNOWBIRD, UTAH
The Thirty-fifth Annual Utah Winter Finance Conference will be held
February 5-7, 2026. The opening reception begins Wednesday evening, February
4th. The concluding dinner is Saturday evening, February 7th . The location is
the beautiful Cliff Lodge at Snowbird.
You are invited to submit papers on any topic in financial economics
for the 2026 UWFC. Papers will be reviewed for selection by the review
committee in a double-blind referee process. Only ten papers are selected
for the UWFC each year.
We are pleased to provide access to all conference paper presentations and discussions for the 2025 conference. These videos, along with prior conference videos, are available on our YouTube channel.
The winner of the 2025 UWFC Best Paper Award is:
"Investigating Instruments with Meta Regressions"
by
Aaron Pancost (Texas) and Garrett Schaller (Colorado State)
The Utah Winter Finance Conference and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies announce a combined submission process. At your choice, your paper submitted to the UWFC also will be considered for publication by the RAPS or the RCFS without additional submission fee.
This is a "no-fault" submission option, which means that if one of the SFS journals decides to review your paper and rejects it, you may submit to any SFS journal at a later date as if the paper was never submitted. Please see our website for the rules for submitting your paper to the RAPS or RCFS.
The Utah Winter Finance Conference acknowledges the generous financial support of the Sam and Diane Stewart Foundation that makes this conference possible.
Also we would like to thank all of our reviewers who spend so many hours reviewing and providing feedback on the papers that are submitted each year. Without their efforts, this conference would not be possible. Here is the list of our most recent reviewers:
Manuel Adalino, Eleana Asparouhova, Brad Barber, Hank Bessembinder, Jacob Boudoukh, Alon Brav, Jonathan Brogaardj, Tarun Chordia, Lauren Cohen, Jeff Coles, Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Michael Cooper, Shane Corwin, Greg Duffee, Espen Eckbo, Thierry Foucault, Sivan Frenkel, Vincent Glode, Dirk Hackbarth, Davidson Heath, Burton Hollifield, Eric Hughson, Mark Jansen, Dirk Jenter, Ron Kaniel, Gautam Kaul, Bryan` Kelly, Shimon Kogan, Camelia Kuhnen, Mark Leary, Martin Lettau, Jiacui Li, Karl Lins, Dmitry Livdan, Tim Lui, Nadia Malenko, Andrey Malenko, Asaf Manela, David Matsa, Roni Michaely, Yihui Pan, , Lubos Pastor, Mitchell Petersen, Giorgia Placentino, Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Uday Rajan, Adriano Rampini, Matt Ringgenberg, Jacob Sagi, Nathan Seegert, Henri Servaes, Chong Shu, Kelly Shue, Stephen Siegel, Janis Skrastins, David Sraer, Richard Stanton, A. Subrahmanyam, Adi Sunderam, Christopher Telmer, Karin Thorburn, Adrien Verdelhan, S Viswanathan, Toni Whited, Avi Wohl, Yuhai Xuan, David Yermack, Kathy Yuan, Jaime Zender, He Zhiguo.
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