Academic Finance

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Finance Profession and Conferences

Journals​

Database and Research Sites​

Research Ranking Website​

Tips for Writing Referee Reports​

Behavioral Finance Scholars​

Behavioral Scholars (Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science)​

Practitioner Scholars​

Professional News

• SSRN Financial Economics Network Events
• SSRN Accounting Network Events
  

Research/Journal Rankings

• Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Clarivate
• Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) for Finance: journal rankings 
• Academic Journal Guide by CABS (ABS) journal ranking
  
• Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) journal quality list
• Research.com: best conferences, journals, scientists and universities based on research

Research Ranking Website

• University of Texas at Dallas Business School Ranking
• BYU Accounting Research Ranking

Funding Sources for Research and Educational Programs

Federal Funding

• Grants.gov – gateway for all federal grants
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)
  • STEM Education (EDU)
  • Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP)
    • Innovation Corps (I-Corps)
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
• Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
• National Institute of Health (NIH)
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• Federal Departments
  • Department of Education (ED) – Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
  • Department of Energy (DOE) – Office of Science (SC)
  • Department of Defense (DOD) – Basic research 

State Funding

• New York State Grants
  • NYS Grants Gateway 
• Empire State Development
  • Division of Science, Technology & Innovation (NYSTAR)
• “A Guide to Federal and New York State Funding – How to Navigate the Process” by Senator Gillibrand (2015)

Private Foundation Grants

• Kauffman Foundation
• William T. Grant Foundation
• Russell Sage Foundation
• Heckscher Foundation for Children
• The Nasdaq Foundation
• National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) (Eligibility)
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Education, Environment)
• Bradley Foundation 
• Wells Fargo Community
• Li Ka Shing Foundation
• Achelis & Bodman Foundation 
• Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation
• Community Foundation of the North State 
• Convergence Finance Design Fund
• Futures Fund
• Long Island Sound Community Impact Fund (CCMP)
• The Calvin Kazanjian Foundation
• Searle Freedom Trust (public policy issues)
• The New York Community Trust 
• Foundation for Aging (Application Tips)

Theme-Based, Centers and Initiatives

• Retirement & Disability Research Funding Opportunities
• NY Retirement & Disability Research Center
• Center for Retirement Research at BC
• New York State Grants
  • NYS Grants Gateway 
• Fordham Consumer Financial Well-Being 

Tips for Authors or Referees

• CRediT author statement (Elsevier)
• Berk, Harvey, and Hirshleifer (JEP): How to Write an Effective Referee Report and Improve the Scientific Review Process
• Harvey and Hirshleifer (2020 SSRN): Up or Out: Resetting Norms for Peer Reviewed Publishing in the Social Sciences
• Barber, et al. (2022) Writing Equitable and Effective External Review Letters in Changing Times
• Berk, Harvey, and Hirshleifer (2016 SSRN): A Checklist for Reviewing a Paper
• Tips for authors from Professor René Stulz
  

Academic Podcast and Blog

• The Grumpy Economist, by Hoover Institution (Dr. John Cochrane)

Preparation for Business Ph.D. Programs

• The Ph.D. Project: Doctoral Resources

Finance Profession

Finance Conferences, Events and Job Announcements

• American Finance Association (AFA)
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
• American Economic Association (AEA)
• Society for Financial Studies (SFS)
• Western Finance Association (WFA )
• Financial Management Association (FMA)
• Managed Funds Association (MFA)
• The Financial intermediation Research Society (FIRS)
• China International Conference in Finance (CICF)
• The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA) 
• Asian Finance Association (AsianFA)
• Global Finance Conference (GFC)

• AFA Call for Papers Calendar
• AFA Conference Calendar
• AFA Finance Directory (Finance Faculty Profile)
• AFA for Job Seekers 
• SSRN Financial Economics Network Professional Announcements, Job Openings 
• New York University Salomon Center
• Stern Microstructure Conference (2023)
• Miami Behavioral Finance Conference (U of Miami)
• SFS Cavalcade North America 2022
• The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA)

• G53 Network (Financial Literacy and Personal Finance)
• Fintech at Johnson 
• FMA Research Seminar (Online)

Finance Journals

• Review of Financial Studies 
  
• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) 
• Management Science   
• Review of Finance
• Journal of Financial Markets 
• Journal of Financial Intermediation

• Journal of Accounting and Economics
• Journal of Accounting Research 
• Accounting Review 
• Review of Asset Pricing Studies       
• Review of Corporate Finance Studies        
• Critical Finance Review    
• Journal of Corporate Finance  

• Journal of Banking & Finance          
• Journal of Empirical Finance
• Financial Analysts Journal
• Journal of Investment Management   
• PLOS ONE        
• PNAS 
• Research Policy
  

Databases and Research Sites

Asset pricing factors & academic research data

• Ken French Data Library       
• Ritter IPO and SEO Data
  
• Global-q factors 
• Robert Stambaugh Data Library        
• Stephan Nagel Data and Code
• Daniel, Hirshleifer, and Sun Behavioral Factors
• Aswath Damodaran (NYU) 
• Yale International Center for Finance  Historical Data
• Bill McDonald Data (textual analysis, 10-X Header)
• Bushee institutional investor classification
• Charles Lee Technology Link Database

Short sales

• FINRA monthly short volume
• FINRA daily short volume
• NYSE TAQ short sales & short volume
• Shortsqueeze.com short interest data
• Failure-to-Deliver Data       
• SHO Threshold Data        
• Markit    

Financial markets

• Refinitiv Asset4
• Refinitiv Eikon
• Revenpack
• Russell                
  
• CFTC-COT        
• SEC-MIDAS 
• Pension&Investments (P&I) funds      
  
• Pension&Investments (P&I) Research Center   
• Global Capital Allocation Project    

Historical web archive

• WayBackMachine
• Archive.today
  
• WebCite
• Alexa (coming soon)
  
• Time Travel
  
• Stilllio
  
• Pagefreezer
  
• Perma.cc
• Yubnub (social command line for the web)
  

Macroeconomics

• John Cochrane Blog
• Center for Economic Studies (CES)  
• Univ of Michigan Survey of Consumers    
• The Conference Board US Leading Indicators
  
• Burning Glass Technologies (Labor market analytics)
• Burning Glass Technologies
• Cortera (economic impact tracker)  
• Fed Coincident Index
  

Household finances and economics

• NLS |  NLSY79 | NLSY97
• Income Mobility Dataset     
• World Inequity Database (Saez)  
• Social Capital Atlas   
• Opportunity Insights 
• The Equal of Opportunity Project
• Stanford Center of Poverty and Inequity
• NY Times Economic Diversity and Colleges
• Global Data on Mobility 
• FINRA National Financial Capability Study  (NFCS data)   
• Center for Retirement Research (BC)     
  
• Rand American Life Panel (ALP)        
• Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF)   | SDA 2022 Aggregates
• Berkeley SDA (Survey Documentation and Analysis) 
• New York Fed Survey of Consumer Expectation

Community

• Census County-Level Data  
• NORC-General Social Survey (GSS)             
• PSU County-level measure of social capital
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• National Study of Private Ownership of Firearms in the U.S. 1994       
• Union Density estimates by State (1964-2013) 
• The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) 
• Social Connectedness        
• Social connectedness data
• Census data (Block for location)
• World Inequality Lab
  
• World Inequality Database
  

Mood and sentiment

• CNN Fear & Greed Index        
• Gallup Mood 
• Facebook Data for Good     
• Behavioral Finance Net     
• Bloomberg Billionaires Index
• RobinTrack 
• Univ of Michigan Survey of Consumers
  

Politics and Law

• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)        
• Harvard Law School Forum 
• Federal Election Commission (FEC) bulk data
  
• US Senate Financial Disclosures (STOCK Act)

Weather and dates

• CDCP        
• NCDC 
• Weather FTP Supplementary Files 
• NOAA Storm Events 
• DST (Worldwide)      
• DST Wiki 
• Holidays US  (SAS function) 
  

SEC Filings

• EDGAR company filings
  
• EDGAR latest filings
  
• EDGAR log file dataset
  

Miscellaneous

• James Hasselback Business Fields Faculty Directory Database
• Natural Experiments in Finance
  
• Genderize.io (tell gender)
• Google Trend Data
• Name Embedding
• Name Origin
• Spotify API | Docs
• Stanford Large Network Databases
  

Behavioral and Social Finance Scholars

USA:

• Robert Shiller (Yale)       
• Richard Thaler (Chicago)
• Hersh Shefrin (Santa Clara)
• Meir Statman (Santa Clara)
• David Hirshleifer (UC-Irvine) 
• Kent Daniel (Columbia)      
• Nicholas Barberis (Yale) 
• Terry Odean (UC-Berkeley)  
• Brad Barber (UC-David)
• Lusardi Annamaria (Stanford)     
• Johannes Stroebel (NYU)
• Lin Peng (Baruch)
• Dong Lou (LSE)    
  

• Wei Xiong (Princeton)
• Malcolm Baker (HBS)        
• Jeffrey Wurgler (NYU)        
• Ulrike Malmendier (UC-Berkeley)
• Paola Sapienza (Northwestern)   
• Bing Han (Toronto) 
• Alok Kumar (Miami)        
• Henrik Cronqvist (Miami)
• Stephan Siegel (UoW)    
• George Korniotis (Miami) 
• Byoung-Hyoun Hwang (Nanyang)
• Theresa Kuchler (NYU)

• Lauren Cohen (HBS)   
• Joey Engelberg (UCSD)       
• James Choi (Yale)       
• Juhani Linnainmaa (Dartmouth) 
• Kelley Shue (Chicago)        
• Ken Ahern (USC)
• Zhi Da (Notre Dame)       
• Joey Engelberg (UCSD)
• Andrei Simonov (Michigan State)
• Alberto Rossi (Georgetown)
• Yueran Ma (Chicago)
• Sonya Lim (DePaul)       

• Eric So (MIT)       
• Ronnie Sadka (Boston College)
• David Solomon (BC)
• Sam Hartzmark (Boston College) 
• Baolian Wang (UF)
• Francesco D’Acunto (Georgetown)
• J. Anthony Cookson (Colorado) 
• Xing Huang (WSU) 
• Stefan Zeisberger (Radboud) 
• Rawley Heimer (Arizona State) 

Europe:

• Martin Weber (Mannheim)
• Luigi Guiso (EIEF)

• Matti Keloharju (Aalto)   
• Markku Kaustia (Aalto)

• Samuli Knüpfer (BI Norwegian)
• Oliver Spalt (Tilburg) 

• Doran Kliger (Haifa)   
• Stefan Zeisberger (Radboud & Zurich)

Asia:

• Sumit Agarwal (NUS) 

• Yu-Jane Liu (Peking)

• Frank Yu (CEIBS)

Behavioral Scholars (Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science)

• Janet Currie (Princeton)  
• Annamaria Lusardi (GW) 
• Olivia Mitchell (Wharton) 

• Raymond Fisman (BostonU)  
• Moritz Schularick (Bonn) 

• Jon Haidt (NYU)   
• John Jost (NYU) 
• Alan Taylor (UC-Davis)

• [Political Science] Robert Putnam (Harvard)
  • Social capital index  

Practitioner Scholars

• Robert Litterman (Short Hills)       
• Bruce I. Jacobs (Jacobs-Levy) 

• André F. Perold (HighVista Strategies)
• Charles D. Ellis (Whitehead Institute)        

• Martin S. Fridson (Lehmann, Livian, Fridson Advisors)