CALL FOR PAPERS THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL UTAH WINTER FINANCE CONFERENCE February 10-12, 2011 ***NEW LOCATION FOR 2011*** CLIFF LODGE, SNOWBIRD, UTAH ***New Submission Deadline: August 30, 2010*** The Twenty-first Annual Utah Winter Finance Conference will be held February 10-12, 2011. The opening reception begins Wednesday evening, February 9th. The 2011 UWFC will be held at the Cliff Lodge at Snowbird. You are invited to submit papers on any topic in financial economics for the 2011 UWFC. Papers will be reviewed for selection by the review committee in a double-blind referee process. Only ten papers are selected for the UWFC each year. Submissions accepted starting: August 6, 2010 The deadline for submission is: August 30, 2010 PARTNERSHIP UWFC and RFS: The Utah Winter Finance Conference and the Review of Financial Studies announce a combined submission process. At your choice, your paper submitted to the UWFC also will be considered for publication by the Review of Financial Studies free of charge. Please see our website for the rules for submitting your paper to the RFS. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Paper must be submitted by August 30, 2010. There is a submission fee of $30. Please submit your paper here under the submission menu item. Authors will be notified of paper selection by early November 2010. BEST PAPER AWARD: There is a $1,000 best paper award. The best paper is selected by a vote of the participants at the end of the last session. SHMUEL KANDEL AWARD FOR AN OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL STUDENT IN FINANCIAL ECONOMICS: The Utah Winter Finance Conference offers a $2,500 award to an outstanding PhD student in financial economics honoring the memory of Shmuel Kandel. The student will attend the UWFC and must also participate in the Student Utah Winter Finance Conference (SUWFC) held the Friday following the UWFC at the University of Utah (the student is invited to remain in Utah between “conferences” or may travel in the intermediate period). Interested students should submit a completed paper (the paper will not be considered for the UWFC program, but the paper can be submitted to the conference separately) and two letters of recommendation from their committee members. The submission will be done directly on our web site under the submission menu area. The submission deadline is August 30, 2010 and the winner will be announced by October 15, 2010.