CfP Deadline:
March 24, 2025
Conference Event:
June 26-27, 2025
Event Location:
Rimini, Italy
Organizer(s):
Essex Finance Centre (EFiC) at Essex Business School
Department of Statistical Sciences “Paolo Fortunati” at the University of Bologna
Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis-Europe (RCEA-Europe)
Keynote Speaker(s):
Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics)
Description:
The EFiC 2025 Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance will take place in person on 26-27 June 2025 at the University of Bologna – Campus of Rimini, Italy.
The objective of the Conference is to bring together leading academics, practitioners and policymakers and give them the opportunity to present state-of-the-art research in the broad areas of banking and corporate finance. The Conference will feature a keynote speech and a policy roundtable session. It will also include a dedicated PhD session to give research students the opportunity to present their work and receive developmental feedback from expert PhD mentors.
We solicit papers in the following areas, in alphabetical order, but other related areas may also be considered:
- Banking and financial services
- Behavioural finance
- Big data applied to banking and finance
- Climate finance
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Digital finance
- Diversity and women in finance
- Entrepreneurial finance
- Financial crisis and resolution
- Fintech and financial innovation
- International finance
- Monetary policy and central banking
- Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs)
- Political economy of central banking
- Portfolio and risk management
- Rethinking of financial regulation and supervision
- SMEs financing
Submission:
Interested authors should submit their paper by email to efic@essex.ac.uk by Monday 24 March 2025 using the following format for the file name: EFiC_SubmittingAuthorSurname_PaperTitle.pdf.
PhD students should indicate if their submission is for the PhD session, otherwise it will be considered for the main session.
Authors interested in the publication opportunity should indicate their interest in the submission email.
We strongly encourage early submissions. Periodic reviews of submissions will be conducted, therefore, it is possible for authors to receive decision notifications prior to the final decision deadline on Monday 7 April 2025.