CALL FOR PAPERS
2026 NORTHERN FINANCE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
QUEBEC CITY, CANADA, SEPTEMBER 25-27, 2026
Dear Members and Friends of the Northern Finance Association:
You are invited to submit papers to be considered for presentation at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Northern Finance Association, to be held September 25-27, 2026, at the Fairmont Château Frontenac, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. We are planning to host the conference entirely in person.
Papers should be submitted electronically at https://portal.northernfinanceassociation.org/login.php
Papers on any topic related to finance will be considered. We favour work that is still at a stage where feedback will be valuable and that has not been presented at major conferences or is not conditionally accepted at the time of submission. Please log in and, if necessary, reset your password well in advance. This will facilitate the submission process if you submit a paper close to the deadline. If needed, click “Forgot your password?” and enter your email address.
The submission deadline is March 16, 2026, at 23:59 Pacific Time. Papers will be reviewed anonymously, and authors will be notified about the outcome of the reviewing process in June.
Keynote: The 2026 Keynote Speaker is Professor Isil Erel, the David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance at the Fisher College of Business of the Ohio State University. The keynote address will be held in the afternoon on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
The submission fee is $75 Canadian (about $55 USD) per paper for all submissions. The submission fee is waived for papers authored exclusively by PhD students by the time of the conference.
Topics: topics from all areas of finance are welcome, including asset pricing, corporate finance, financial intermediation, investments, with special interest in Canadian financial markets, insurance, household finance, sustainable finance, fintech and AI.
Sessions for PhD students: We especially encourage PhD students to submit their papers to the conference. All papers will first be considered for a regular session presentation. If a paper is not accepted for the regular session presentation, it will be considered for presentation at a PhD Session. The paper can be further considered for a PhD Poster Session should it not be accepted at either the regular or PhD Session. For this option, please answer “Yes” in the “Consider for PhD poster session?” box. Please use the above link for your submission and select “PhD Student” in the “PhD Student?” droplist column. Note: For a paper to be considered for a PhD session or poster session, all the authors must be PhD students at the time of the conference. The NFA will provide a limited number of travel grants to PhD student authors whose work is presented at the 2026 conference.
For more information, please consult the NFA website at https://northernfinanceassociation.org. We look forward to seeing you in Quebec City in September!
Andréanne Tremblay and Gabriel Power
NFA 2026 Conference Co-Chairs