Applications to the Doctoral Research Symposium are now open.

The workshop will take place on December 5, 2025 from 8am - 2pm ET, via Zoom. 
Submissions are based on faculty nominations.

We invite junior researchers (PhD job market candidates, seasoned candidates, and pre-tenure researchers within 3 years from graduation) working in the areas of FinTech, AI, and Big Data in Economics and Finance to apply.

Nominating faculty, please provide an endorsement paragraph for the job market candidate using the following form:




Job market candidate, please upload your job market paper using the following form. In the form, you may opt in to be included in the ABFR Job Candidate List.




The deadline for nominations and job market paper submissions is November 16th, anywhere on earth. 

The organizing committee will notify selected job market candidates by the end of November.