The finance faculty of the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics are pleased to announce the 2026 UK Finance Conference. The conference will be held in Lexington, KY - the heart of bourbon country.
We welcome papers in all areas of finance and aim to create an intimate, collegial experience with ample opportunities for discussion of papers and ideas among leading academics. In addition to Friday and Saturday academic sessions at Gatton College, the program includes a Thursday evening welcome reception, a Friday conference dinner, and excursions highlighting Lexington’s signature attractions: bourbon and thoroughbred horses.
Jawad AddoumCornell University
Pat AkeyESSEC Business School
Tom BatesArizona State University
Justin BirruOhio State University
Alex ChincoMichigan State University
Emanuele ColonnelliUniversity of Chicago
Tony CooksonUniversity of Colorado
Kimberly CornaggiaPenn State University
Zhi DaUniversity of Notre Dame
Anthony DeFuscoUniversity of Wisconsin
Stephen DimmockNational University of Singapore
Jason DonaldsonUniversity of Southern California
Winston DouUniversity of Pennsylvania
Jesse EllisNorth Carolina State University
Mike EwensColumbia University
Julia FonsecaUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nick GantchevUniversity of Virginia
Clifton GreenEmory University
Itay GoldsteinUniversity of Pennsylvania
Todd GormleyWashington University in St. Louis
Jill GrennanEmory University
Samuel HartzmarkBoston College
Rawley HeimerArizona State University
Zoran IvkovichMichigan State University
Petri JylhaAalto University
Ankit KaldaIndiana University
Song MaYale University
Jordan NickersonUniversity of Washington
Pascal NoelUniversity of Chicago
Seth PruittArizona State University
Matt RinggenbergUniversity of Utah
Chris SchillerOhio State University
Lukas SchmidUniversity of Southern California
Luke SteinBabson College
Luke TaylorUniversity of Pennsylvania
Richard ThakorUniversity of Minnesota
Boris ValleeINSEAD
Ed Van WesepUniversity of Colorado
Yufeng WuOhio State University
Constantine YannelisUniversity of Cambridge
