The International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA), jointly with the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA), will hold its annual meeting on January 5-7, 2018, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both members and non-members are invited to submit papers to this meeting. We encourage the submission of papers on topics including (but not limited) to financial intermediation inside or outside of the regulated sector; securitization and shadow banking; financial risk measurement and management; financial stability and macroprudential policies; payments systems; household finance; financial market structure and regulation; and financial innovation.