The EFA 2013 Organising Committee

• Amir Amel-Zadeh
• David Chambers
• Jenny Chu
• Elroy Dimson
• Gishan Dissanaike
• Bang Nguyen
• Raghavendra Rau (Chair)
• Pedro Saffi
• Peter Szilagyi

Event Manager: Maimie Hume

The EFA 2013 Programme Committee

Track chairs

• Raghavendra Rau (Chair)
• Asset Pricing Empirical I – Mike Cooper, University of Utah
• Asset Pricing Empirical II – Amit Goyal,  HEC Lausanne
• Asset Pricing Theory – Michael Gallmeyer, University of Virginia
• Behavioral Finance Theory – Alok Kumar, University of Miami
• Behavioral Finance Empirical – Geoffrey Tate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Corporate Finance Empirical I – Kai Li, University of British Columbia
• Corporate Finance Empirical II – Michelle Lowry, Penn State University
• Corporate governance – Simi Kedia, Rutgers University
• Corporate Finance Theory – Bart Lambrecht, University of Cambridge
• Derivatives – Gurdip Bakshi, University of Maryland
• Financial Intermediation Empirical – Tarun Ramadorai, University of Oxford
• Financial Intermediation Theory – Uday Rajan, University of Michigan
• Household Finance – Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago
• International Finance – Piet Sercu, KU Leuven
• Financial Econometrics – N.R. Prabhala, University of Maryland
• Market Microstructure – Tarun Chordia, Emory University
• Banking, Central Banking and Regulation – Charles Calomiris, Columbia University
• Real Estate – Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, New York University

Programme Committee members

University of Cambridge Supporters: Faculty and Doctoral Candidates

Brian Cheffins, Colin Lizieri, Robert Wardrop, Robert Jalali

Kirsty McLaren, Jonathan Faasse, Lishan Du, Despo Malikkidou, Nicky Ferguson

Prize Committees

S.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P. Best Conference Paper Prize:

• Andrew Karolyi, Cornell University
• Marc Lipson,University of Virginia
• Robert Marquez, UC Davis
• Henri Servaes, LBS
• Pradeep Yadav, University of Oklahoma

Commonfund Prize for Best Paper relevant to Foundation and Endowment Asset Management:

• David Chambers, University of Cambridge
• Elroy Dimson, London Business School
• William N. Goetzmann, Yale School of Management

EFA Best Doctoral Student Conference Paper Award:

• Frans de Roon, Tilburg University
• Avri Ravid, Yeshiva University
• Pedro Santa Clara, Nova School of Business and Economics

The EFA 2013 Doctoral Tutorial Committee

• Loriana Pelizzon (University Ca’Foscari of Venice)
• Frans de Roon (Tilburg University)

Ene Kannel: EFA Executive Secretary and EIASM Event Manager

Marion Hebbelynck: EIASM Administrative Coordinator for the EFA Doctoral Tutorial