1st London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop

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CfP Deadline Date:
March 1st, 2020

Conference Event:
June 5th, 2020 will be rescheduled, dates t.b.a.

Event Location:
Cass Business School, London, England

Organizer(s):
Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School, CEPR & CESifo), Orkun Saka (University of Sussex, LSE & SRC) and Paolo Volpin (Cass Business School, CEPR & ECGI)

Cass Business School and the Systemic Risk Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) will jointly organize a workshop on the theme of political finance. The workshop will take place at the Cass Business School campus in central London on 5 June 2020. The workshop will provide a platform for researchers and policymakers to discuss new research and to identify areas where further academic and policy-oriented work is needed. Both theoretical  and empirical contributions are welcome.

There will be a dedicated discussant for each paper, as well as open floor discussion. Papers are invited on the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

• Financial crises, political institutions and populism
• Interaction of financial cycles with politics
• Revolving doors between financial institutions and government
• Corruption and lobbying in finance
• Political/policy uncertainty and corporate risk-taking
• Gender/race issues in finance
• Media and finance

The workshop features a keynote speech by Professor Sir Timothy Besley (LSE).

Further Information:

There is no registration fee. An invitation-only conference dinner will be hosted on 4th June 2020. Accommodation costs for the presenters will be covered by the workshop organisers. To submit a paper (full papers accepted only – preliminary versions also welcome), please send an email to Orkun Saka at o.saka@lse.ac.uk. In the subject header please add “Submission: POLFIN Workshop”. In the case of multiple-authored papers, indicate who will present the paper.
Deadline and results: The deadline for the submission of papers is 1st March 2020. The authors will be notified about the acceptance of papers by 1st April 2020.