Finance Events, Calls for Papers, Research Initiatives and Announcements

Call for Papers: E FA Doctoral T utorial

The EFA-DT invites PhD students to submit their single-authored research paper on topics within the field of finance. Each student is limited to submitting one paper. Dual submission to the Annual Meeting and Doctoral Tutorial is allowed, note the separate deadlines and submission systems.

Date: August 20, 2025
Venue: Skema Business School Paris
Submission window: February 15 - March 15, 2025
Notification: Early June
Format: In person, in Paris, France
Info & Guidelines: » EFA Doctoral Tutorial – Info & Guidelines
FAQ: » Frequently Asked Questions about the EFA Doctoral Tutorial

European Finance Association

EFA 52^nd Annual Meeting

SKEMA Business School is proud to organize the 52nd Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association. The meeting will be held from 20 through 23 August, 2025. The submission deadline is February 1, 2025 (midnight Standard Pacific Time).

Special sessions: EFA 2025 Paris will offer special sessions organized with institutional partners:
- Banque de France (BdF) on Challenges from climate change and nature
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS) on Government debt and financial markets.
- European Central Bank (ECB) on Challenges for monetary policy transmission through banks and non-banks: the role of investors and new financial technologies.
- Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) on Understanding the long-run drivers of asset prices.
- SCOR Foundation on Extreme risk in financial markets.
Keynote speaker: Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University.
EFA 2025 Program Chair: Laurent Calvet

Organizers and host: European Finance Association SKEMA Business School

Lake District Workshop in Corporate Finance

Description: Lancaster University’s workshop combines academic sessions featuring world-leading research in corporate finance with ample opportunities to informally interact, also in the beautiful setting of England’s Lake District, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Date: May 8th and 9th, 2025
Venues: The Belsfield Hotel in Bowness-on-Windermere (Lake District, UK)
Submission deadline: February 3rd, 2025
Submission website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/ldwcf/
Format: in-person
Info & Guidelines: here
Keynote speakers: Andrey Malenko – Professor in the Seidner Department of Finance at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College
FAQ: corpfin@lancaster.ac.uk.

Host Organizations: Lancaster University

2025 JBFA Capital Markets Conference

JBFA publishes papers in the areas of financial and non-financial reporting and performance measurement, corporate finance, accounting-based asset pricing, corporate governance, and their interfaces. They invite submissions of high-quality research papers addressing topical research questions in any of these areas.

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2024
Location: University of Padova, Italy
Dates: 21-23 May 2025
Conference submissions will be treated as submissions to JBFA.
More info: here

Organizers and host: University of Padova, International Centre for Research in Accounting, John Wiley & Sons, JBFA

2025 CHINA International Conference in Finance

The China International Conference in Finance (CICF) provides an open platform to bring together scholars worldwide to present current research and stimulate exchanges on new developments in finance and capital markets. Over the years, CICF has grown to be one of the leading conferences in financial research in the world.

Submission Deadline: February 11, 2025
Location: Shenzhen, China
Dates: June 29 – July 2, 2025
Keynote speaker: Thomas J. Sargent, New York University
Conference Chair: Jiang Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
More info: here

Organizers and host: Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business School of Management and Economics/Shenzhen Institute of Data Economy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University SUSTech College of Business/SUSTech Academy of Finance and Economics, Southern University of Science and Technology

Oxford SAID – VU SBE macro-finance conference

The Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the School of Business and Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam jointly invite submissions to the Oxford Saïd - VU SBE Macro-finance Conference. The conference will be held over two days (June 19-20, 2025) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with support from Tinbergen Institute. They welcome high-quality submissions at the intersection of financial intermediation and macroeconomics, both theoretical and empirical research

Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025
Location: School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dates: June 19-20, 2025
Keynote speakers: Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago and Herakles Polemarchakis, University of Warwick
Organizers: Oren Sussman (Saïd Business School, Oxford), Xuan Wang (VU Amsterdam /Tinbergen Institute), Dimitrios Tsomocos (Saïd Business School and St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) and Remco Zwinkels (VU Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute)
More info: here

Organizers and host: Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, School of Business and Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute

Call for Papers: LAPE Spring Workshop 2025

LAPE workshops are small meetings featuring a limited number of high-quality papers with the aim of fostering discussion among academics, policymakers, and practitioners about the evolving challengers facing banks. For the 2025 Spring Workshop, they expect to accept for presentation about six full papers and six short presentations in the PhD/YoungScholar sessions.

Submission Deadline: March 23, 2025
Format: in person
Venue: University of Limoges, France
Dates: June 12, 2025
More info: here

Organizers and host: LAPE, Université de Limoges

Call for Papers: Research Symposium on Finance and Economics (RSFE) 2025

The Research Symposium on Finance and Economics (RSFE) 2025 organized by IFMR GSB (formerly IFMR) at Krea University aims to bring researchers, academicians, and practitioners in finance and economics across the globe to present, discuss and deliberate upon emerging issues in finance and economics in contemporary world.

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2025
Format: Virtual
Dates: June 11 -13, 2025
Conference Chair: Praveen Bhagawan
More info: here

Organizers and host: IFMR GSB, Krea University, India

Call for Papers: 2nd Modern Finance Conference (MFC 2025)

University of Warsaw is pleased to invite finance researchers to the 2nd Modern Finance Conference (MFC 2025), which will be held at the University of Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland, on September 7-9, 2025. The event aims to provide a platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research, innovative ideas, and novel approaches in all areas of finance. The conference will be held in a hybrid format, combining in-person and online sessions.

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
Location: Warsaw, Poland and virtual
Dates: September 7-9, 2025
Keynote speaker: Prof. Iftekhar Hasan, Professor at Fordham University, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Financial Stability.
Conference website: https://mf-conference.com/
More info: here

Organizers and host: University of Warsaw

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Research Initiatives and Announcements

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