CfP Deadline Date:
January 31, 2022
Conference Event:
June 10-12, 2022
Event Location:
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Keynote speaker(s):
- Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
- Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London, UK
Organizer(s):
Portsmouth Business School (University of Portsmouth, UK) and the Montpellier Business School (France)
The 11th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS) is jointly organized by the Portsmouth Business School (University of Portsmouth, UK) and the Montpellier Business School (France).
The special theme of this year’s conference is “Climate change, regulatory responses, and sustainable finance”.
However, the conference aims to provide a forum for debate among researchers and policy makers from around the world on recent developments in all aspects of banking and finance. Therefore, topics of interest, although not limited to the ones below are:
- Bank management: risk management, internal control, corporate governance & remuneration reforms, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, efficiency and performance, etc.
- Corporate Finance: capital structure, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, share repurchases,
- Corporate Governance: board of directors, remuneration, shareholder voting, corporate governance regulations, etc.
- Financial Markets: stock markets, bond markets, mutual funds, globalization and integration, asset pricing, market volatility, behavioural finance, exchange rate markets, commodities markets, etc.
- Financial Engineering: arbitrage trading, pricing of options and derivatives, technology and algorithmic finance, risk management and analytics, etc.
- Financial Regulation and Monetary policy: Basel framework, macro-prudential regulation; monetary policy strategy under uncertainty; unconventional types of monetary policy, law and finance, the role of committees in setting monetary policy, financial reporting regulations, etc.
- Financial Stability: Competition, liquidity, pro-cyclicality; risk assessment (systemic; individual institutions); financial crises and resolution, etc.
- FinTech: Crowdfunding, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, LendTech, machine learning and big data, PayTech, robo-advisors
- Institutional Environment: formal institutions (e.g. rule and law) and informal institutions (e.g. culture) and their impact on firm outcomes
- Sustainable Finance: Climate risk, ESG strategies, green bonds, social and green banking, microfinance, cooperative and mutual finance, central banks’ green finance policies, policy making initiatives (e.g. European Commission’s Action Plan: Financing Sustainable Growth)
- Real Estate Markets: house pricing & housing bubbles, property derivatives, real estate returns, real estate markets and the macroeconomy, etc.
Further Information:
PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES
The Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments (journal) will publish a special issue on “Climate risk: policy responses, financial market impacts and corporate risk-management”. The special issue will be guest edited by Iftekhar Hasan, Philip Molyneux, Fotios Pasiouras, and Panagiota Papadimitri. Authors interested in having their manuscripts considered for this special issue should first send them to the Guest Editors. Upon an initial screening, the Guest Editors will invite the authors of high-quality papers that fall within the aim and scope of the special issue to submit their manuscripts through the online platform of FMII. All the papers will be subject to a double-blind peer review process, in accordance with the Journal’s policy.
“Finance”, the academic journal of the French Finance Association, will publish a special issue on “Social and Sustainable Finance” in collaboration with the 2022 conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society. The special issue will be edited by: Moez Bennouri, Carole Bernard, Anastasia Cozarenco, and Menelaos Tasiou. Authors interested in having their manuscripts considered for this special issue should first send them to the Guest Editors. Upon an initial screening, the Guest Editors will invite the authors of high-quality papers that fall within the aim and scope of the special issue to submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Manager platform of “Finance”. All the papers will be subject to a double-blind peer review process, in accordance with the Journal’s policy. The usual manuscript submission fee of Finance applies.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers must be submitted via the online submission system https://febs2022.eventsadmin.com until 31st January 2022.
CONFERENCE FEES
The registration fee for the participants includes the registration material, lunches, coffee breaks, and the welcome cocktail. Please note that the gala dinner is not included in the registration fee.
Academics:
- Early registration (up to April 15th, 2022): £340
- Late registration (16th April – 8th May, 2022): £410
Ph.D. students:
- Early registration (up to April 15th, 2022): £260
- Late registration (16th April – 8th May, 2022): £310
Professionals:
- Early registration (up to April 15th, 2022): £430
- Late registration (16th April – 8th May, 2022): £510
Guests:
- Early registration (up to April 15th, 2022): £150
- Late registration (16th April – 8th May, 2022): £200
Social events:
- Gala dinner: TBA
Link CfP and Conference: 11th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society