Welcome to the 28th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting (CFEA), hosted at the Fox School of Business at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa.

CFEA is an annual conference hosted by members of a consortium of eight universities: Georgia State University, Indiana University, New York University, Rutgers University, Temple University, Tulane University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Toronto. It is a highly selective and refereed conference of research papers in financial economics and accounting. The conference aims to bring together financial economists and accounting scholars to share their research relevant to theory and practice of business.

The 2017 program features two distinguished keynote speakers: Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago, and John Core, Nanyang Technological University Professor and Professor of Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.