Update - 56th Annual Eastern Finance Association Meeting

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Our conference was scheduled to be held in Boston from April 1-4.  Unfortunately, as per the declaration by the Governor of Massachusetts banning large gatherings, we cannot proceed with that meeting.  We considered alternatives, such as postponing the conference or holding it virtually, and concluded that our best course of action was to cancel the conference and focus our energy on our 2021 meeting in Atlanta.  We will post a call for papers in July, and hope that you will join us.

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We are happy to announce the best paper awards for this year, and thank their sponsors for support.
 

Corporate Finance (sponsored by Wharton Research Data Services - WRDS)

“What if Dividends were Tax Exempt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment”

Dusan Isakov, University of Fribourg

Christophe Perignon, HEC Paris

Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne

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Institutions and Markets (sponsored by Oklahoma State University)

“Observing Enforcement: Evidence from Banking”

Anya Kleymenova, University of Chicago

Rimmy  E. Tomy, University of Chicago

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Investments (sponsored by the American Association of Individual Investors - AAII)

“Intraday Arbitrage Between ETFs and Their Underlying Portfolios”

Travis Box, Clemson University

Ryan Davis, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Rich Evans, University of Virginia

Andrew Lynch, University of Mississippi

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The Kuldeep Shastri Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper

“The Term Structure of Municipal Bond Yields, Local Economic Conditions, and Local Stock Returns”

Fotis Grigoris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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The full conference program is available online at

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https://www.openconf.org/efa2020/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=program.php&p=program