Boca Finance and Real Estate Conference

We are delighted to invite you to the Boca Finance and Real Estate Conference. The conference will be held in person at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, USA on the 12th and 13th of December 2024.

The conference theme is “Interest-Rate Risk and it’s Impact on Banking and Real Estate.” The unprecedented increase in interest rates orchestrated by the Federal Reserve Board during 2022 – 2023 has profoundly affected the values of long-duration securities as well as the values of fixed-rate mortgages and commercial real estate. We are looking for papers that document and analyze these effects.

We invite the submission of original papers on this topic but will consider other topics related to banking, financial institutions, commercial real estate, and residential real estate.

The conference offers an interdisciplinary forum to gain feedback on timely working papers from scholars in the accounting, economics, finance, and real estate disciplines.

Keynote Speakers:

Finance: Ran Duchin, Professor of Finance, Boston College

Real Estate: Susan Wachter, Professor of Real Estate and Finance, University of Pennsylvania

Meet the Editors Panel:

Finance: Brandon Cline (Journal of Financial Research), David Feldman (Quarterly Journal of Finance), Luis Garcia-Feijoo (Financial Analyst Journal), and Tina Yang (Financial Review)

Real Estate: Bill Hardin (Journal of Real Estate Research), Michael LaCour-Little (Journal of Housing Research), TBA 

Questions about the conference should be directed to Rebel A. Cole: coler@fau.edu or Anita Pennathur: pennathu@fau.edu