Conference Organizers:
Aymeric Bellon (UNC), Paolo Fulghieri (UNC), Stefano Giglio (Yale),
Stephen Arbogast (Director, Energy Center, UNC)
RFS Editorial Sponsors:
Xavier Giroud (Columbia Business School) and Anna Pavlova (London Business School)
Keynote Speaker:
Robert Engle (NYU), 2003 Nobel Laureate in Economics
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions for the Main Conference and the Energy Finance Colloquium are solicited. Please refer to the Call for Papers for full details. Authors may make multiple submissions.
To submit a paper to the Main Conference joint with RFS, authors should complete the two steps below:
To submit a contribution to the Energy Finance Colloquium, authors should complete the two steps below:
The submission deadline is 11:59 PM PST, November 18, 2025.
Authors will be notified by February 15, 2026.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Pat Akey (ESSEC), Ian Appel (UVA), Jan Bena (UBC), Florian Berg (MIT), Tobias Berg (Frankfurt), Ran Duchin (Boston College), Daniel Garrett (Wharton), Mariassunta Giannetti (HHS), Deeksha Gupta (Johns Hopkins), Matthew Gustafson (Penn State), Joel Houston (U of Florida), Po-Hsuan Hsu (NTHU), Kris Jacobs (U of Houston), Ravi Jagannathan (Northwestern), Sehoon Kim (U of Florida), Philipp Krueger (U of Geneve), Mathias S. Kruttli (Indiana), Augustin Landier (HEC Paris), Doron Levit (U of Washington), Pedro Matos (UVA), Adair Morse (UC Berkeley), Marcus Opp (HHS), Michael G. Pollitt (Cambridge), Robert Ready (Lundquist), Geert Rouwenhorst (Yale), Pari Sastry (Wharton), Zacharias Sautner (Zurich), Julien Sauvagnat (Bocconi), Sophie Shive (Notre Dame), Christoph Schiller (OSU), Kelly Shue (Yale), Laura Starks (UT Austin), Jan Starmans (HHS), Johannes Stroebel (NYU), Jerome Taillard (Babson), Sumudu Watugala (Indiana), Michael Wittry (OSU), Jeffrey Wurgler (NYU), Qiping Xu (UIUC), Ayako Yasuda (UC Davis), Federica Zeni (EPFL).
CONFERENCE VENUE
The Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center
150 DuBose Home Lane
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27517
Conference participants will be responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses. An arrangement has been made at the Rizzo Center for a preferential rate for conference participants. The conference registration fee is $250.00, which covers conference materials, coffee breaks, lunches, and conference dinner on Thursday, April 9, 2026.
CONTACT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONS
Katherine Gusler (she/her)
Finance Area – Faculty Executive Coordinator
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenan-Flagler Business School
300 Kenan Center Drive, 4100 McColl Bldg. | CB 3490
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone: 919-962-0487
katherine_gusler@kenan-flagler.unc.edu