Daily Archives: 23. November 2023

Call for Papers: 2nd Structured Retail Products and Derivatives Conference

Call for Papers:
2nd Structured Retail Products and Derivatives Conference

Campus Hagen, Germany
Fri–Sat, May 24–25, 2024

Succeeding the online workshop in 2021, we are pleased to announce the 2nd conference on options and derivatives with special emphasis on retail products. We cordially invite the academic community to submit papers related to options and derivatives markets in general.

There will be a special track on structured retail products. For this track, we also encourage the submission of work in progress, with an extended abstract of approximately 300–800 words. Topics for this track may include, but are not limited to:

  • Behavioral aspects,
  • Hedging strategies,
  • Market microstructure,
  • Pricing policies,
  • Product innovations,
  • Product valuation,
  • Regulatory issues.

Please submit your paper or abstract in PDF format via e-mail to
derivatives-conference@fernuni-hagen.de.

The submission deadline is January, 31st, 2024.

Author notification will be given in Mid-February 2024.

We are pleased to announce that Neil Pearson, Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professor of Financial Markets and Options, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has agreed to give a keynote address.

The conference will be accompanied by a special issue of the Journal of Futures Markets.

For further information regarding the conference venue, travel, accommodation, etc. visit www.fernuni-hagen.de/derivatives-conference.

Conference chairs:

Prof. Rainer Baule
University of Hagen
rainer.baule@fernuni-hagen.de

Prof. Bart Frijns
Open University of the Netherlands
bart.frijns@ou.nl

Call for Papers: 2nd European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop

Call for Papers
2nd European Sustainable Finance PhD
Workshop
June 18-20, 2024 in Augsburg

The Faculty of Business and Economics and the Centre of Climate Resilience of the University of Augsburg are organizing a PhD workshop together with colleagues from CREST, ENSAE, ESCP, KU Leuven, Warwick Business School, and Utrecht University on the topic of Sustainable Finance. We invite PhD students to apply to present and discuss their current research to professors and other PhD students with a focus on Sustainable Finance. The workshop will take place in person from June 18 to June 20, 2024, in Augsburg.

The submission is open to a wide range of theoretical and empirical work on Sustainable Finance including, but not limited to Corporate Finance and Governance, Asset Pricing, Climate Finance, and ESG Investing. The presentation of single-authored papers is particularly encouraged.

Please submit your journal-article-length paper (PDF) and CV to info@esfpw.eu by February 16, 2024. Applicants must be enrolled as PhD students at the time of the workshop. The program committee’s decision will be announced in April 2024. Selected students will receive a travel grant (250EUR) and free accommodation for the workshop.

We are happy to announce that the program committee will give a best paper award (only single-authored works) and a best discussion award. In addition, Prof. Roni Michaely, PhD, Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at The University of Hong Kong will be our keynote guest.

Program Committee:
Jeroen Derwall (U Maastricht, U Utrecht), Alberta Di Giuli (ESCP), Rients Galema (U Utrecht), Nickolay Gantchev (Warwick Business School), Irene Monasterolo (U Utrecht), Naciye Sekerci (KU Leuven), Sebastian Utz (U Augsburg), Thomas Walther (U Utrecht), Marco Wilkens (U Augsburg), Olivier David Zerbib (CREST, ENSAE)

Workshop homepage: http://www.esfpw.eu