2025 UC Davis-FMA Napa Finance Conference 

21 & 22 March 2025 | Napa Valley, CA

Co-hosted by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and FMA’s flagship journal, Financial Management, the 21st Annual 2025 UC Davis-FMA Napa Finance Conference will feature high-quality papers from scholars conducting financial research.

The 2025 Conference will be held on Saturday, 22 March 2025 at Beringer Vineyards; conference dinners will be held on Friday, 21 March and  Saturday, 22 March.

Program Co-Chairs

• Joseph Chen, Associate Professor of Finance, UC Davis
• Michael Goldstein, Donald P. Babson Professor of Applied Investments, Babson College & Editor, Financial Management
• Ayako Yasuda, Gallagher Professor of Finance, UC Davis

Conference Program

Local Monetary Policy
Vyacheslav Fos, Boston College | Tommaso Tamburelli, Boston College | Nancy R Xu, Boston College

Past is Prologue: Inference from the Cross Section of Returns around an Event
Jonathan B Cohn, University of Texas at Austin | Travis L Johnson, University of Texas at Austin | Zack Liu, University of Houston | Malcolm I Wardlaw, University of Georgia

Unauthorized Immigration and Local Government Finances
Jess Cornaggia, Penn State University | Kimberly J Cornaggia, Penn State University | Ryan D Israelsen, Michigan State University

Public Sentiment Decomposition and Shareholder Actions
Reena Aggarwal, Georgetown University | Hoa Briscoe-Tran, University of Alberta | Isil Erel, Ohio State University | Laura T Starks, University of Texas at Austin

Certain vs. Uncertain Timing
Indira Puri, New York University

You can only Lend what you Own: Inferring Daily Institutional Trading from Security Lending Supply
Yashar Baradehi, Chapman University | Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame | Peter Dixon, US SEC | Junbo Wang, Louisiana State University

Presenting authors appear in bold.

Paper Submissions

The deadline to submit a paper was Monday, 18 November 2024. We are no longer accepting submissions.

Click here to read the Call For Papers

The editors of Financial Management (FM), the flagship journal of FMA International, will be apprised by the conference program committee of papers that the committee assesses to be of particularly high-quality.  In select cases, the editors will “lightly solicit” papers for submission to FM by offering fast-turnaround, high-quality reviews, waived initial submission fees, and enhanced marketing of papers that are eventually accepted through this submission route. Referees for “lightly-solicited” papers will be made aware that the paper was invited for submission by the editors.  While these invitations do not promise eventual publication of papers in FM, the invitations are only offered to a small number of papers each year that the respective FMA conference program committees identify as likeliest to clear the bar for publication in FM without major revisions.

Conference Sponsors

About UC Davis 

The UC Davis Graduate School of Management is focused on preparing the next generation of inspired, results-driven and innovative leaders who are committed to making a positive impact. Its vision as a business school on the rise is to spur new business and job creation, prepare innovative management leaders, and accelerate investment and innovation through strong partnerships with industry.

Every day, the community of faculty, students, alumni and staff is making an impact at Fortune 500 firms, mid-sized companies and promising startups by helping to put new ideas into action.