City University of Hong Kong
December 7-9, 2026
PROGRAM
Presenting authors are underlined. Chairs/discussants are being filled in as they are confirmed.
Conference Chairs
Chair: Jun QJ Qian (Fudan University)
Vice Chair: Xiaoyun Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Associate Chair: Jaewon Choi (Seoul National University)
Host’s Faculty Sponsors: Kalok Chan, Weikai Li
Keynote Speakers
Xavier Giroud (Columbia Business School)
Jun QJ Qian (Fudan University), Cavalcade Chair
Awards
Winners will be announced at the conference.
Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income
Best Paper in Asset Pricing
Best Paper in Corporate Finance
Venue
Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
City University of Hong Kong
Directions
The most convenient way to get to City U of Hong Kong is to take Mass Transit Railway (MTR), either Kwun Tong line (green line) or East Rail line (blue line), and come to Kowloon Tong Station.
To get inside City U of Hong Kong
1. Once you arrive at Kowloon Tong Station, look for signs to Festival Walk mall.
2. In Festival Walk mall, go up to Level LG1.
3. Find Shop LG1-10 (Cova), take the escalator next to it, which brings you to a pedestrian subway leading to CityU.
4. Pass through the pedestrian subway and turn right to reach the Chinese Garden.
5. Walk through the Chinese Garden and there is a security checkpoint at the end, and you are required to provide QR access code.
To get to Lau Ming Wai Academic Building (LAU)
(for parallel sessions and keynote speech)
6. The building is to the right of the security checkpoint.
To get to City Chinese restaurant
6. Pass through the University Circle and turn right at the Wong’s Internation Terrace.
7. Pass through the swimming pool and you will find 2 elevators at the end.
8. Take the elevator to come to 8th floor.
Conference Registration
REGISTER HERE
–Registration deadline: December 1.
-On-site registration is not available.
-All participants must register, including session chairs, discussants, presenters, and attending co-authors.
-Registration fees may be paid via credit card (Visa, Mastercard) or PayPal. If you are paying with a credit card, you do not need to create a PayPal account; simply click past the PayPal Sign In to pay with your card.
-Registration is nonrefundable.
-Make sure you are using your member email when you register; details here.
Early Registration (through November 1)
SFS Members: $150/Nonmembers: $190 USD
Regular Registration (beginning November 2)
SFS Members: $175/Nonmembers: $215 USD
PhD Students and CityUHK faculty receive registration fee waivers. Please use your university email to register.
Presenting
Recommended presentation times: 30 minutes for authors, 15 minutes for discussants, and 10 minutes for audience and author participation, for a total of 55 minutes per paper. Session chairs will guide the time at their discretion.
Authors of Accepted Papers
Please log into ConfTool to make updates to your paper. It must be the submitting author logging in to make the updates. The submitting author may upload a new PDF of the paper, update the title and author information, and indicate the presenting author, by clicking Your Submissions –> Final Upload
Accommodations
Royal Plaza Hotel
193 Prince Edward Road West, Mong Kok, Kowloon
Link to book
CityUHK Lodge (located on campus)
Academic Exchange Building, 81 Tat Chee Avenue, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
Link to book
Book by December 7
Royal Park Hotel
8 Pak Hok Ting Street, Sha Tin, New Territories
Link to book
Book by October 31
Cordis, Hong Kong
555 Shanghai Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon
Cordis does not have a promotion link. Participants may directly contact the sales manager to receive a 10% discount off the flexible rate.
Decisions
-We received 513 submissions. With 54 presentation slots, the acceptance rate is 10.5%.
-Conference decisions have been sent.
-RCFS dual submission decisions have been sent.
-RAPS dual submission decisions are in process.
Submitting Your Paper
–The submission period is CLOSED.
–Call for Papers
-The submission period is June 1-June 30, 2026. The system will close at 11:59pm ET. Please begin your submission with time to complete it prior to the deadline.
-The submitted paper must not be accepted (or conditionally accepted) at a journal.
-Papers that have been presented (or are scheduled to be presented) at the WFA, AFA, and/or SFS Cavalcade North America are allowed.
-Authors of accepted papers are required to attend their session regardless of which day the session is scheduled; if an author can not make it to the scheduled time, the conference reserves the right to pull the paper.
-You do not need to remove author names from the uploaded paper.
-Each paper may only be submitted once. You may not submit the same paper as both a regular submission and a student submission.
-The submission fee is $75. There are no refunds.
-For papers in which ALL co-authors are doctoral students, the submission fee was waived. Do not select this option if coauthors on the paper are not PhD students. To receive the waiver, you must select the Student Submission category. Postdocs do not qualify for the PhD Student waiver.
-ConfTool does not save accounts from previous conferences so you will need to make a new account even if you have made an account for a previous Cavalcade.
-ConfTool requires you to pay the fee before you can submit your paper. If you are submitting multiple papers, ConfTool will ask you to pay all the fees at once, then upload each paper individually. Payments may be made via PayPal, Stripe, or credit card (Visa, Mastercard). You do not need a PayPal account; to pay with credit card, simply click past the PayPal log-in prompt.
Dual Submission Option with RAPS and RCFS
You have the option to elect dual submission to either the Review of Corporate Finance Studies or the Review of Asset Pricing Studies. If the journal you select decides not to send your paper out for review, the editor may refer your paper to the other journal, if appropriate, or to the Review of Financial Studies, for possible review. Thus, by selecting the dual submission option, you have implicitly agreed to be reviewed by any of the three SFS journals. Please see our Dual Submission Policy.
About the Cavalcade
The SFS Cavalcade is an annual 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 is a joint project of the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Corporate Finance Studies, and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies.
Contact Us
For questions, contact cavalcadeasiapacific@sfs.org