CfP Deadline:
June 6, 2025
Conference Event:
November 18-19, 2025
Event Location:
Paris, France (Hybrid Event)
Organizer(s):
European Banking Authority (EBA)
Description:
The 2025 EBA Policy Research Workshop focuses on the role of financial structures and intermediaries in economic growth. The event will discuss and explore policies that can support capital formation, growth and innovation, while ensuring financial stability.
From the perspective of financial regulation, the efficient allocation of financial resources enhancing overall competitiveness and provisioning mechanisms for managing risks raise important research questions about the adequacy of the present regulatory regime.
What is the role of financial structures and intermediaries in bringing capital and economic growth? How financial regulation influence the efficiency of financial intermediation? Is the current regulatory regime for banks an efficient driver to encourage savings and ensure that capital is used in the most productive ways? How financial intermediaries manage risk, particularly during periods of financial instability? What are the effects of different regulatory environments on the functioning and stability of financial intermediaries? How could financial regulation support sustainable development by facilitating investments in green projects and technologies? How to better align regulation and policies with the opportunities and challenges brought by digitalisation in financial structures and intermediation?
The 2025 EBA Policy Research Workshop will discuss these questions. The workshop aims to bring together economists and researchers from supervisory authorities and central banks, as well as leading academics. The organisers are inviting submissions of policy-oriented, preferably empirical, research papers. Researchers from supervisory authorities and central banks are especially encouraged to submit papers for presentation. Submissions are particularly welcome on the following topics:
- The impact of global capital flows on market efficiency and the role of financial intermediation
- Access to finance by entrepreneurs ensuring that capital is used in the most productive ways
- Provision of mechanisms for managing risk and contribution from regulatory frameworks on the functioning and stability of financial intermediaries
- Incorporation of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) supporting sustainable development and growth
- Advances in digital finance initiatives and better alignment with regulation and policies
Submission:
Interested parties should submit their draft papers and any queries to research.conferences@eba.europa.eu at the European Banking Authority.
The submission deadline is Friday 6 June 2025.
Contributors will be notified by mid-September 2025.