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SWFA 63rd Annual Meeting
Las Vegas, NV

February 28 - March 1, 2024

Planet Hollywood  

3667 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109

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Speakers: Our Keynote Address was given by Ivo Welch, Distinguished Professor of Finance, J. Fred Weston Chair in Finance, University of California, Los Angeles. Additionally, our 2024 Distinguished Scholar, Matthew Serfling, Clayton Homes Chair of Excellence in Finance, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, spoke at our lunch business meeting.

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2024 Las Vegas Keynote Speaker

Ivo Welch, Ph.D.

Ivo Welch is Distinguished Professor of Finance and holds the J. Fred Weston Chair in Finance at UCLA Anderson. A member of the Anderson faculty from 1989 to 2000, he spent five years at Yale’s School of Management and six years in Brown University’s economics department before rejoining Anderson in 2011. Widely regarded as one of the more influential economists of his generation, Professor Welch has authored numerous publications with far-reaching citation impacts. Most recently, he won a prestigious Humboldt Research Award. His papers have won best paper awards in the major finance journals, and he twice received the Michael Brennan Award. He has recently served as the director of the UCLA Anderson Fink Center and the American Finance Association and is a National Bureau of Research (NBER) research associate. He has written a free textbook on corporate finance and is the editor of the Critical Finance Review. Known for his work on informational cascades, he has also published in a variety of other areas, such as initial public offerings, capital structure, dividends, market-timing, performance evaluation, earnings management, overconfidence, socially responsible investing and bankruptcy.

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2024 Las Vegas Distinguished Scholar

Matthew Serfling, Ph.D.

Matthew Serfling is an associate professor of finance at the University of Tennessee and an associate editor at Financial Management. He received his Ph.D. in finance from the University of Arizona and undergraduate degree in finance with a minor in mathematics from North Dakota State University. His research primarily focuses on understanding how corporate decisions interact with labor markets and other non-financial stakeholders, but he is also interested in topics related to corporate governance and understanding how managers shape the information environment of their firms. His research has been published in leading finance and accounting journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research.

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Congratulations to our Award Winners:

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• Educator of the Year, Ivelina Pavlova-Stout
• Best Paper in Corporate Finance (sponsored by Journal of Financial Research)
  • "Human Capital Reallocation and Agglomeration of Innovation", Jing Xue
• Best Paper in Environmental, Social, and Governance (sponsored by Review of Financial Economics)​
  • "When the EPA is in Play, Risk-Taking Goes Away", by Seungho Choi, Ross Levine, Jonghyeon Park, and Simon Xu​
• Best Paper in Investments (sponsored by the American Association of Individual Investors)​
  • "Mutual Fund Shorts and the Benefits of Acquiring Information", by Boone Bowles and Adam Reed​
• Best Paper in Financial Markets (sponsored by Oklahoma State University)​
  • "Political Partisanship, Policy Risk, and Market Quality", by Brian Roseman​​

• Best Doctoral Submission in Corporate Finance (sponsored by Journal of Financial Research)

  • "Insider Filing Delay and Corporate Misconduct", Brandon Cline, Caleb Houston, and Junnatun Naym

• Best Doctoral Submission in Environmental, Social, and Governance (sponsored by Journal of Financial Research)​

  • "CEO Cultural Heritage, CSR, and Firm Value", MD Showaib Sarker and Ahmed Elnahas​

• Best Doctoral Submission in Investments (sponsored by the University of North Texas)​

  • "Do Venture Capitalists Value Climate Risk", Hyeonjoon Park

• Best Doctoral Submission in Financial Markets (sponsored by the University of North Texas)​

  • "Spatial Extrapolation in the Housing Market", Gen Li​

 

Special Issue of Finance Research Letters: Presenters have the option of having their paper additionally considered for a special issue of Finance Research Letters titled “Redefining the Future”, with a focus on research questions which provide insight into near and far term problems in finance. See the Call for Papers for more details. Issue Guest Editors: Laura Gonzalez, California State University, Long Beach and Ivelina Pavlova-Stout, University of Houston – Clear Lake.

 

​Optional E-Proceedings.  Presenters may submit two-page proceedings, due by March 31, 2024.

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Contact: Dr. Andrew Lynch, 2024 Vice-President Program Chair

Email: program@swfinance.org

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