Announcements
We are pleased to announce our next webinar: Discrimination in U.S. Small Business Lending: Preliminary Results from a Field Experiment, presented by Sally Sadoff (University of California, San Diego) on Friday, January 15, 2027, at 11:00 AM (Central Standard Time, US).
For the overview and full webinar schedule, please visit the Webinars tab.
We are excited to announce the third Field Experiments in Accounting and Finance Conference, to be held at Duke University on January 27–28, 2027.
Conference Details
- Dates: January 27–28, 2027
- Location: Duke University
- Wednesday, January 27: presentations begin at 1:30 pm
- Thursday, January 28: presentations end at 12:30 pm
- Registration fee: $260 to cover logistics and refreshments
About the Conference
As in prior years, the goal of the conference is to bring together scholars in accounting and finance who are currently doing research using field experiments, or who have an interest in conducting field experiments in future work. The conference is also meant for scholars with an intellectual interest in field experiments even if they have no prior background in the area.
Please consider attending even if you have no prior experience with field experiments. Part of the goal is to increase exposure and encourage collaboration among scholars interested in this type of research.
Organized by Eric Floyd, Gilles Hilary, and Henry Eyring.
Call for Presentations
If you have a field experiment you would like to present, we encourage you to submit it for consideration. Because field experiments benefit from feedback prior to implementation, the presentation need not be of an already completed field experiment.
- Deadline: November 30, 2026
We are launching the AFFE Design Workshop Series, short online workshops for early feedback on field experiment designs before data collection begins.
We are currently looking for presenters for our first two sessions. Each session runs about one hour on Zoom, with a 10–15 minute presentation and open discussion. A research question and an active design is enough — no paper or preliminary results required.
For details and to submit your design, visit the Experimental Designs tab.
We are excited to announce the start of our Virtual Workshops for 2026. Our first workshop will take place on April 3, 2026.
For details on the workshop schedule, speaker, and paper, please visit the Webinars tab.
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the CUHK Shenzhen/UCSD/Waseda joint conference on field experiments in Accounting and Economics, to be held in Tokyo, Japan, on March 21, 2026.
Conference Details
- Dates: March 20-21, 2026
- Location: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
- Day 1 (March 20): Welcome Reception
- Day 2 (March 21): Paper presentations (30 mins presentation + 15 mins discussion + 15 mins Q&A)
Keynote Speaker
Professor Anna Costello
Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Accounting and Applied AI, and John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Call for Papers
We welcome manuscripts using field experiments to address important questions in accounting, economics, and finance. Consideration will be given to studies that:
- Examine the role of information in shaping decision-making by managers, small business owners and other economic agents;
- Use behavioral interventions to reduce inefficiencies in the market;
- Leverage field experiments to test theoretical predictions or calibrate economic models.
Submission Information
- Deadline: 11:59 PM PST, December 31st, 2025
- Submit to: field_conf@cuhk.edu.cn
- Notification: Authors of accepted papers will be notified by January 15th, 2026
- Selection: Five papers and discussants will be selected
Registration
To register your interest in attending the Joint Conference in March, please provide your name, affiliation, and email:
Organizing Committee
Eric Floyd, Kanyuan Huang, Kanetaka Maki, Regina Wittenberg-Moerman, Michael Price, Joon Sang Yoon, and Tianyu Zhang
Contact: field_conf@cuhk.edu.cn