CfP Deadline:
January 12, 2026
Conference Event:
July 7-8, 2026
Event Location:
Varese, Italy
Organizer(s):
Money and Finance Research Group
Keynote Speaker(s):
Steven Ongena (University of Zurich, CEPR Fellow)
Description:
The Money and Finance Research Group (MoFiR) is pleased to announce that the next workshop will be held in Varese (Italy) on July 7-8, 2026. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. The organising committee of this small informal workshop invites submissions of high-quality theoretical and empirical research on financial intermediation. Scholars in the fields of banking and finance will meet to discuss current issues in banking, financial stability, bank regulation, financial innovation, financial inclusion, and consumer credit. The workshop provides an opportunity for discussions about policy-relevant research in an informal and interactive environment.
PhD students: The conference will include a Poster Session for Ph.D. students working on financial intermediation.
The workshop will include an additional half-day on July 6 on “Financial linkages and geopolitical risks”, with invited papers.
Accommodation costs (up to three nights) for presenters and invited discussants will be reimbursed. There is no conference fee, and all meals are included. CEPR may be able to offer limited travel support for PhD students without budget, subject to the availability of funds and in line with CEPR’s travel guidelines. If you require funding, please indicate this when submitting your paper. We will not be able to provide support to those who have not requested it in advance
Submission:
To submit a paper (full papers only), please visit the webpage https://hub.cepr.org/event/4956.
For each individual submission there is a submission fee of EUR 50, which can be paid by bank transfer or PagoPA, at this link. The payment must be made by the corresponding author submitting the paper. Each person can submit one paper.
The deadline for submission is 6pm (GMT), 12 January 2026. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please email meets@cepr.org for assistance (with subject header “15th MoFiR Workshop on Banking”).
Dual Submission Option: In the submission, authors should indicate if they wish their paper to be considered (at no extra fee) for publication by Review of Corporate Finance Studies under the Dual Submission Program. This is a “no-fault” submission option: if the RCFS reviews the paper and rejects it, the authors may submit it to any SFS journal at a later date as if it was never submitted. See http://sfs.org/dualsubmissionpolicy/ for details.
Papers will be selected by the program committee and corresponding authors will be notified of acceptance by 30 March 2026. Preference will be given to authors who can attend the whole workshop