EFiC Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance

In partnership with the Joint Research Centre, the Essex Finance Centre (EFiC) at Essex Business School is organising the eighth edition of the EFiC Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance.  

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. 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. 

Interested authors should submit their paper by email to eficessex [dot] ac [dot] uk (efic[at]essex[dot]ac[dot]uk) by Monday 24 March 2025

Papers are solicited in the following areas, 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

Dates: 26-27 June 2025 at the University of Bologna – Campus of Rimini, Italy. 

More info on the EFiC 2024 Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance dedicated page.