The 2026 HKUST Finance Symposium

This year's HKUST Finance Symposium features a Dual Submission option with the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE). The conference submission deadline is Friday, January 16, 2026, midnight US PST. Priority for both the conference and the dual submission will be given to papers without any authors who graduated before 2018, but we will consider all submissions.

Eligibility

A paper is eligible for the dual submission option if it has not been previously rejected from the JFE and if the paper is not currently under review at another journal. Papers that had been submitted to the JFE already through a different dual submission process are not eligible. 

Review Process

Dual-submitted papers will be considered for possible inclusion on the HKUST Finance Symposium program in addition to a no-fault review at the JFE.

Timeline and JFE Submission Process

Update: The journal has notified the authors whose papers were invited for dual submission.

Authors should be informed of their dual submission status by mid-March 2026. Invited authors may revise the paper before officially submitting through the JFE submission portal, but the manuscript must be submitted to the JFE before July 1, 2026, to qualify under the dual submission.

At the time of the JFE submission, authors are responsible for following the JFE’s submission guidelines, which include paying the submission fee (https://www.jfinec.com/submissions). By selecting the dual submission option, you attest that the paper is eligible for submission to the JFE.

No Fault Submission

The JFE recognizes that the HKUST Finance Symposium focuses on young scholars, and that scientific work develops over time. If the invited dual submission is eventually rejected at the JFE, the paper may be submitted to the JFE at a future date through the normal submission process.

If the dual-submitted paper is not invited through this process, it can still be submitted to the JFE under the normal submission process at a later date without prejudice.  That is, the JFE will not flag papers that are not invited through the dual submission process and will have no institutional memory of these papers.