Following 12 successful FOM conferences, the 13th 2025 FOM conference will be held on October 24-25, 2024, in person at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.
Dates: October 24-25, 2025. The conference program will begin with breakfast on Friday, October 24th, and end with a boxed lunch on Saturday, October 25th.
Host: Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Keynote Speaker 2025: René Stulz, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University
Paper Submissions Closed: Deadline was July 1
Registration: Link will be live by late August (by invitation, no registration fee).
Hotel: The conference has a discounted group rate at the USC Hotel ($254.47 incl taxes) that you can reserve here
Our research committee includes Heitor Almeida (Illinois), Tania Babina (Maryland), Scott Baker (Northwestern), Murillo Campello (Florida), Tony Cookson (Colorado), Espen Eckbo (Dartmouth), Michael Ewens (Columbia), Murray Frank (Minnesota), Laurent Fresard (SFI Lugano), Franz Hinzen (Dartmouth), Jerry Hoberg (USC), Sabrina Howell (NYU), Naveen Khanna (Michigan State), Arthur Korteweg (USC), Katharina Lewellen (Dartmouth), Evgeny Lyandres (Tel Aviv University), Song Ma (Yale), Vojislav Maksimovic (Maryland), Nadya Malenko (Michigan), David Matsa (Northwestern), John Matsusaka (USC), Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth), NR Prabhala (Johns Hopkins), Lukas Schmid (USC), Giorgo Sertsios (Wisconsin Milwaukee), Morten Sorensen (Dartmouth), Kelly Shue (Yale), Chad Syverson (Chicago), Shawn Thomas (Pittsburgh), and Eric Zwick (Chicago).
Registration will open up in August of 2025, and the registration link will be emailed to the FOM mailing list. Conference attendees will be responsible for their own travel to the conference. Marshall will cover up to 2 nights in the nearby USC hotel for presenters and discussants. Others are welcome to attend and will be responsible for their hotel expenses (we will provide a discounted hotel reservation code). Please email Alex Kim at akim1132@marshall.usc.edu if you have any questions. You can also reach out to the organizers Jerry Hoberg, Arthur Korteweg or Lukas Schmid.