We had another successful conference with outstanding papers, presentations and discussions. To read any of the 2013 papers or to view the presentations and discussions please click on the WebCast link in the top menu. Prior conference webcast videos are also available there.

The conference continues to grow and is truly an international conference. With almost 300 papers from around the world this conference continues to be one of the most competitive and we truly believe the best papers end up here.

During the conference, we had 8245 visits from 635 individuals (an increase of about 30% from 2012) from 38 countries. Here is a list of the top 10 visitor countries:
    
    - United States
    - China/Hong Kong
    - Japan
    - India
    - United Kingdom
    - Ukraine
    - Germany
    - Sweden
    - Russia
    - Israel

Thanks to our many submitters, reviewers, discussants and participants for another great year!

The Utah Winter Finance Conference and the Review of Asset Pricing Studies and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies
announce a combined submission process. At your choice, your paper submitted to the UWFC also will be considered for
publication by the RAPS or the RCFS without additional submission fee. This is a "no-fault" submission option, which means
that if one of the SFS journals decides to review your paper and rejects it, you may submit to any SFS journal at a later
date as if the paper was never submitted. 

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION:

Paper submission is now closed.

Authors will be notified of paper selection by early November 2012.

CONFERENCE WEBCASTING:

We will webcast live the presentations and discussions of the 2013 UWFC (and store the videos on our website for future
viewing) as was done in past years. Following the 2012 UWFC, our website experienced a total of 33,648 visits by 5,125 
unique visitors from 94 different countries (top 10 countries: US, China, Japan, France, UK, Germany, Ukraine, India, 
Russia, and Canada).

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.

The submission deadline is August 31, 2012 and the winner will be announced by early November.

The 22nd Annual Utah Winter Finance Conference was held February 9-11, 2012. The conference was another success with several fantastic papers being presented and discussed. Here are some of the statistics of the 2012 Utah Winter Finance Conference:

    Submission Process:

• 307 Papers Submitted
• 582 Authors
• Approx. 250 Institutions

    Conference Webcast Audience

• 6,635 Site Hits
• 562 Unique Visitors
• 33 Countries

Congratulations to Ralph Koijen(Chicago) Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh(NYU), Motohiro Yogo(Minneapolis FED), co-authors of the 2012 UWFC Best Conference Paper and also Jesse Blocher, the 2012 Shmuel Kandel Award winner. You can view these papers and see past recipients under the "Awards" page.