The European Finance Association Annual Meetings have recently attracted over 750 renowned financial economist from top business schools and universities from all around the world. In a highly competitive selection process, a committee of track chairs and reviewers from the best universities around the globe chooses around 240 papers for presentation from more than 1,800 submissions. This stringent selection process ensures the excellence and the high quality of finance research presented at the EFA yearly conference.

The conference hosts 75 sessions over two-and-a-half days, includes a Doctoral Tutorial, and serves as the venue for the formal EFA Annual Meeting. The conference comprises several social events, which are excellent networking platforms.
 

The EFA Annual Meeting is held by a different university each year. The University of Mannheim is proud to host the 44th EFA Annual Meeting, taking place on August 23-26, 2017 at Mannheim Palace, the main campus of the university.
 

Following is a list of previous editions of EFA Annual Meetings:

2016 - 43rd Annual Meeting
BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

2015 - 42nd Annual Meeting
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

2014 - 41st Annual Meeting
USI Università della Svizzera italiana and the Swiss Finance Institute, Switzerland

2013 - 40th Annual Meeting
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

2012 - 39th Annual Meeting
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

The next EFA Annual Meeting
2018 - 45th Annual Meeting
Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

The complete overview of EFA Annual Meeting editions can be found on the EFA website.