The finance faculty of the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics is pleased to announce the 2025 UK Finance Conference. The conference will be hosted in Lexington, KY - the heart of bourbon country.
We welcome papers in all areas of finance and aim to create an intimate, social experience featuring ample discussion of papers and ideas amongst high-quality academics. In addition to Friday and Saturday academic sessions at Gatton College, there will be a Thursday evening welcome reception and Friday conference dinner as well as excursions featuring our local attractions of bourbon and thoroughbred horses.
Jawad AddoumCornell University
Pat AkeyUniversity of Toronto/INSEAD
Heitor AlmeidaUniversity of Illinois
Tom BatesArizona State University
Justin BirruOhio State University
Audra BooneTexas Christian University
Bruce CarlinRice University
Emanuele ColonnelliUniversity of Chicago
Tony CooksonUniversity of Colorado
Zhi DaNotre Dame University
Stephen DimmockNational University of Singapore
Jason DonaldsonUniversity of Southern California
Winston DouUniversity of Pennsylvania
Jesse EllisNorth Carolina State University
Mike EwensColumbia University
Eli FichDrexel University
Nick GantchevUniversity of Warwick
Clifton GreenEmory University
Itay GoldsteinUniversity of Pennsylvania
Todd GormleyWashington University
Samuel HartzmarkBoston College
Jarrad HarfordUniversity of Washington
Rawley HeimerArizona State University
Mark HusonUniversity of Alberta
Zoran IvkovichMichigan State University
Petri JylhaAalto University
Elena LoutskinaUniversity of Virginia
Song MaYale University
Jordan NickersonUniversity of Washington
Michaela PagelWashington University
Mitchell PetersenNorthwestern University
Seth PruittArizona State University
Matt RinggenbergUniversity of Utah
Lukas SchmidUniversity of Southern California
Matthew SpiegelYale University
Luke SteinBabson College
Ed Van WesepUniversity of Colorado
Yufeng WuOhio State University
