“The Society for Financial Studies (SFS) Finance Cavalcade conference is the best large finance conference according to the subsequent publication rates in TOP3 finance journals.”
–Sebastian J. Reinartz and Daniel Urban, 2017, Finance conference quality and publication success: A conference ranking, Journal of Empirical Finance 42, 155-174. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927539817300257
The SFS Cavalcade is a three day conference covering all areas of finance. Our goal is to provide a setting that produces the kind of in-depth participation of a smaller conference while accommodating the variety of papers of a larger one. The SFS Cavalcade conference is a joint project of the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies.
Upcoming Cavalcades
2026 SFS Cavalcade North America: May 18-21, hosted by Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
2025 SFS Cavalcade North America: May 19-22, hosted by Stevens Institute of Technology
Bid to Host
We welcome bids to host 2027 and beyond! Bidding Information
Cavalcade Chairs
Cavalcade North America Chairs
Past Cavalcades
2024 SFS Cavalcade North America: May 19-22, hosted by Georgia State University
2023 SFS Cavalcade North America: May 22-25, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin
2022 SFS Cavalcade North America: May 22-25, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2021 SFS Cavalcade North America: May 24-27, hosted by MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy (Virtual Conference)
2020 SFS Cavalcade North America: May 25-28, hosted by the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University (Virtual Conference)
2019 SFS Cavalcade North America: May 20-23, hosted by the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University
2018 SFS Cavalcade North America: May 21-24, hosted by Yale University
2017 SFS Cavalcade North America: May 15-18, hosted by the Financial Markets Research Center at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University
2016 SFS Cavalcade: May 15-18, hosted by the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto
2015 SFS Cavalcade: May 17-20, hosted by the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech
2014 SFS Cavalcade: May 18-21, hosted by Georgetown University
2013 SFS Cavalcade: May 13-May 16, hosted by The University of Miami
2012 SFS Cavalcade: May 21-May 25, hosted by The University of Virginia
2011 SFS Cavalcade: May 23-May 27, hosted by The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with Financial Support from the Mitsui Life Financial Research Center