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Call for Papers: Alpine Finance Summit (AFS) 2024
Conference Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Jochen Lawrenz (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Stöckl (University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Utz (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Florian Weigert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

Overview
The Alpine Finance Summit (AFS) is an exclusive and high-caliber conference devoted to the presentation and discussion of academic finance working papers.

Research Focus
The scientific focus of the conference lies on research in the areas of Asset Pricing, Investments, Sustainable Finance, Innovative Finance, and FinTech. We welcome empirical, experimental, and theoretical contributions which have not been published in a scientific journal.

Conference Date and Venue
The AFS will take place at the Hotel Innsbruck (Innrain 3, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria), a stylish 4-star hotel directly located in downtown Innsbruck from Sunday, August 25th – Wednesday, August 28th, 2024. Accommodation for all conference participants is reserved at the Hotel Innsbruck for a reduced rate of 179 EUR per night. Please directly book with the code: AFS-2024 at the Hotel Innsbruck. All participants are expected to stay for the entire conference.
The conference directly follows the 2024 European Finance Association (EFA) meeting in Bratislava. It is possible to reach Innsbruck from Bratislava by train in 5:30 hours on a direct train connection.

Paper Submission
Submission Deadline: 15/03/2024 (CET, Midnight)
Submit your fully developed working paper at https://www.conftool.com/alpinefinancesummit2024. Selection of papers is determined via a blind-review process; hence author identities must be concealed at submission. Authors are allowed to submit more than one paper. There is a submission fee of EUR 50 per paper.
Authors will be notified on the acceptance/refusal of their article in April 2024.

Keynote Speaker
We are happy to announce that the keynote speech will be given by Prof. Michael Weber, Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Social Program
Similar to the vision of “winter finance conferences”, particular focus is devoted to a social program for summer outdoor activities, such as hiking, mountain biking, and summer sledding. These activities will be organized during the conference and all conference participants are encouraged to participate. Detailed information on the social program will be provided in spring 2024.

Conference Fee
The conference fee is 350 EUR per participant. It includes an apéro riche on the first conference day and the conference dinner on the third conference day.

Further Information
Further information can be retrieved on the conference homepage: www.alpinefinancesummit.org
Submit questions and requests to alpinefinancesummit@gmail.com

30th Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association (DGF)
RWTH Aachen University, September 26-28, 2024

We cordially invite researchers and practitioners to participate in the 30th Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association (DGF) organized by the Department of Finance of RWTH Aachen University between September 26 and 28, 2024.

Call for Papers
We invite submissions of recent research papers. Guidelines for the submission are:

• Submissions are only accepted through the online submission system (https://www.conftool.net/dgf2024/index.php?page=submissions).
• The submission period is from February 01, 2024, to April 30, 2024 (midnight, CET).
• Submissions are subject to a double-blind review process. Thus, papers have to be submitted in an anonymous format (no reference(s) to author(s) or affiliation(s)).
• Only full papers in English are considered for review. Papers should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 120 words.
• Submissions accepted for presentation are also eligible for inclusion in a special issue of the Journal of Business Economics which will feature, among other articles, a synopsis of Stefan Nagel’s keynote speech. Stefan Nagel will also be among the co-editors for this special issue (see separate call on the Journal homepage; independent submission required, this is not an official publication outlet of the DGF)

• For all necessary information (including location, accommodation, etc.) please visit www.dgf2024-conference.de.

On September 26, 2024, RWTH Aachen University will host several events, including a doctoral workshop and a Women-in-Finance event. Beginning in the early afternoon at about 3:00 pm, all conference participants are invited to join:

• a Women-in-Finance keynote speech by Mila Getmansky Sherman (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Is-enberg School of Management),
• a Meet-the-Editors session with Thierry Foucault (HEC Foundation Chaired Professor of Finance) and Stefan Nagel (Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business),
• a practitioners’ talk on asset management.

We are looking forward to welcoming all participants to the get-together starting at 7:00 pm and hope for strong partici-pation in the Thursday events. For more information on the Women-in-Finance event and the doctoral workshop, please visit www.dgf2024-conference.de.

On September 27 and 28, 2024, the School of Business Studies of FH Aachen will host about 30 sessions and a poster session, featuring the presentations of approximately 95 research papers. We are particularly proud to announce that this year’s keynote speech will be delivered by Stefan Nagel. Following the keynote, participants will have the opportunity to join a city tour of the beautiful and historic city of Aachen, followed by the conference dinner at City Hall Aachen.

The best paper and the best paper exclusively written by a PhD student will both be awarded prizes.

This year’s conference will include the following special sessions:

Deutsche Bundesbank Session on Banking Supervision & Regulation:
Topics to be addressed in this dedicated session include the linkages between bank and non-bank financial intermediaries, credit, sovereign and ESG risk, deposit stability and liquidity risk, interest rate risk and asset/liability management, stress testing and risk models, systemic risk and financial stability, as well as big data and machine learning in financial regulation.

VR-Bank eG – Region Aachen Session on Household Finance and Retail Banking:
This dedicated session centers around research related to the financial decision-making of private households. The topics covered include consumer behavior in retail banking, financial inclusion, literacy, and accessibility, technological inno-vations in personal finance, household expectations regarding economic issues, household consumption and saving behavior, as well as behavioral economics in household finance.

Session on Stochastic Finance and Statistics:
The dynamic nature of financial markets and the inherent yet changing risks, ranging from systemic to asset-specific risks, require reliable and sophisticated methods to support the management of risk exposures and mitigation of financial risks. Therefore, this session is dedicated to exploring how one can measure, detect, surveil, and infer changes in the stochastic structure of financial data and risks.

Session on Behavioral and Experimental Finance:
Behavioral perspectives are now being integrated into various fields to enhance our understanding of decision-making and market outcomes. Experiments have become a popular method for causally studying these behavioral questions. This session aims to bring together work from all fields of finance where research is conducted with a behavioral per-spective and/or through experimental methods. The goal is to better understand when behavioral approaches are nec-essary to accurately describe behavior and when such descriptions can be based on standard assumptions.

Early bird registration for conference participation is from May 1 to July 31, 2024. Late registration starts September 1 and is available until September 20, 2024.
We are looking forward to an interesting conference and to welcoming you to Aachen!

Kind regards,
Wolfgang Breuer      Andreas Knetsch      Philipp Schmitz
Peter Letmathe        Lisa Spantig                Ansgar Steland

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Banking and Finance in Emerging Markets
August 19-20, 2024
Bank of Finland, Helsinki

Workshop is organized by LaRGE Research Center (University of Strasbourg), Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT), and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University (New York). We are happy to organize already the 10th edition of this banking workshop.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ROSS LEVINE (Stanford University)

TOPICS: The workshop organizers invite researchers to submit empirical papers covering all areas of banking and finance in emerging markets. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

• banking and institutions
• political economy of banking
• banking and development
• non-bank financial intermediation
• finance and conflicts
• financial stability in emerging markets
• institutional underpinnings of financial systems

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Those interested in presenting a paper should submit a copy of their research in PDF format via online submission form. Only complete papers will be considered. There is no conference fee. The deadline for submission is April 1, 2024. The authors of accepted papers will be notified by May 3, 2024.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Zuzana Fungáčová (BOFIT), Iftekhar Hasan (Fordham University), Iikka Korhonen (BOFIT), Paul Wachtel (New York University), Laurent Weill (LaRGE Research Center, University of Strasbourg).

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
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