Each EFA Annual Meeting has a separate database. Therefore, you must create a new account at our event management platform ConfTool. You can of course the same username/password used for your previous login data.

Please register to the system using your institutional email. You can also indicate a secondary email, possibly your EFA membership email.

No panic! You can always retrieve your login information by clicking on the links “Forgotten your username?” and/or “Forgotten your password?” on the EFA 2019 login page at ConfTool, click here.

Users can always edit their personal information. After login, click on “Edit User Account Details” on the menu page or click on your name on the top-right side of the screen and click on “Edit User Account Details”. If you need to change your email address, please send us an email (efa2019@novasbe.pt).

Users who validate their email(s) will be given the rights to read and access the submissions where they are listed as co-authors. This happens only if the user email and email indicated in the submission form are the same! To validate your address, click on “Show User Account Details” from your ConfTool homepage.

No, authors are not asked to pay a submission fee. However, the submitting author must be a current year EFA member (2019) in order to submit a paper to the EFA 2019 Annual Meeting.

The “submitting author” is the person who submit the paper via our conference registration system. He/she is the one who needs to become EFA member for the current year.

New members can apply online on the Oxford University Press website. Please see the information here. The page includes the direct link to purchase membership.

Yes, you must become member as well. Each submitting author must be an EFA member for the current year. Co-author(s) membership does NOT count.

Yes, all authors that wish to submit to the EFA 2019 (main conference) must be EFA members for the 2019.

If you were already a member in previous years, you can use the renewal link that was sent to you by email from the email address “jnls.cust.serv@oup.com”. EFA membership and renewal link are managed by Oxford University Press (OUP).

If you have not received it, please contact OUP customer services EFAmembership@oup.com, or on +44 (0)1865 353907.

EFA memberships are not refundable and not transferable. Please note that if you wish to attend the conference in August, you will be asked to become an EFA member.

Registration for the EFA 2019 Annual Meeting will open in late April 2019 and close on August 1^st, 2019. Please note that the registration is considered complete only after payment.

• Early-Birds: April to June 30^th
• Regular: July 1^st to August 1^st

Yes, the conference is also open to participants who do not present papers.

The EFA Annual Meeting is a member-only conference. If you are not an EFA member for the current year and wish to attend the EFA Annual Meeting, please 1) register to the conference at www.conftool.com/efa2019, and 2) renew/purchase EFA membership via Oxford University Press (info here).

This year we cannot issue invoice through ConfTool, but each invoice must be issued via Nova SBE. We aim to send invoices twice a month. If you need your invoice intermediately or need to include specific information (e.g. VAT), please write an email to efa2019@novasbe.pt.

For those participants who need a visa to enter the European Union, we recommend getting in contact with your local Embassy or Consulate. As organizers, we are entitled to issue an invitation letter. Please note that the invitation letter will only be released for those participants who have completed and paid their registration fee. As organizer, we reserve the right to decide if the invitation letter is issued or not. To get your invitation letter, contact efa2019@novasbe.pt.

You can also view a list on the tracks and topics page.

Please note that you are allowed to select only ONE track and as many topics as you wish (within the track).

You need to submit a paper via ConfTool  at www.conftool.com/efa2019 and you must be an EFA member for the current year (2019).

Detailed guidelines are available here.

You can submit the paper to any of the tracks available (list here). All papers submitted to the conference are considered for special sessions. Therefore, we do not have any specific track for special session. If you wish, during submission, you can include the words “special sessions” in the keywords field.

Don’t want to present your paper in a special session?
No problem! On the submission form tick the checkbox “I do NOT want my paper to be included into any of the special sessions (BIS, ECB, NBIM).”

Authors are entitled to change/revise/delete their submission any time before paper submission deadline (February 1^st, 2019 at 1:00pm (13:00 hrs.) CET (Central European Time)).

Click on “Your Submissions” -> “Edit Contribution Details”. From this page, you can change/update: author(s), organization(s), title of contribution, abstract, topics, and tick-box options. Please note that to complete the action, you need to press the “Save Data” button.

Please note that if you need to change the track of your submission, you must withdraw your paper and resubmit it.

If you need to change the track of your submission, you must withdraw your paper and resubmit it. the system doesn’t allow you to change the track.

Your submission was not saved before closing the page. The system allows authors to submit a contribution and upload papers later. However, the submission process needs to be completed by saving the submission.

On the upload files page, authors can choose between two saving options: “Save Submission, Upload files later” and “Upload Files and Complete submission”. Please submit your paper again and if the problem persists, contact us.

Login to your account and click on “Your Submissions” -> “Withdraw Contribution” -> “Yes, withdraw contribution”. You will shortly receive a confirmation email about your withdrawal.

Please note that the 2019 EFA membership is not refundable and not transferable.

There are various reasons why you have not received the confirmation email. Before taking any action, please check:

1. That your email is spelled correctly. To do so, click on your name on the top-right side of the screen and click on “Edit User Account Details”,
2. Check your email spam folder,
3. Re-send another confirmation email by clicking on “Your Submissions” -> “Edit Contribution Details” and save your submission again.

If again you have not received the confirmation email, please get in contact with your email provider at your institution. ConfTool emails may be blocked before reaching your inbox.

In order to upload the files to your submission, you have to log into ConfTool (www.conftool.com/efa2019). On the overview page, click “Your Submission”, and then click “Upload Contribution” among the options on the right-hand side. There you will be able to upload the anonymous and complete version of your paper.

The RF will receive information about the best 30 papers submitted to the conference. The editor might contact the author(s) in order to invite them to submit their paper to the RF. It is the choice of the author(s) to decide for or against the invitation. Please note that this is NOT a dual submission.

The submission for the Doctoral Tutorial and Doctoral Workshop will open on February 15 and close on March 15, 2019. At the doctoral events page, you can find the links to display more information.

Yes, you can. You must apply on both systems (EFA 2019 and doctoral events).

The EFA central website displays detailed information about the doctoral events and submission information. Website: www.european-finance.org.