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Call for Papers: Second Aarhus Workshop on Strategic Interaction in Corporate Finance

August 19-20, 2024 in Aarhus, Denmark

The objective of this workshop is to present state-of-the-art academic research on topics related to strategic interaction in corporate finance. There will be one track of presentations over the course of two days, with a small number of papers on the program to allow for ample time for discussions and to create a stimulating environment. Each paper will have a discussant. The workshop will start with a welcome reception on the evening of Sunday August 18, 2024.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Itay Goldstein, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Mike Burkart, London School of Economics

TOPICS: We welcome submissions from all areas of corporate finance, in particular related to the strategic interaction between different agents (such as managers, investors, financial institutions, rating agencies), and their objectives. Papers in an early stage will also be considered. We ask you not to submit a paper that has been accepted for publication in a journal or is close to being accepted. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.

Sample topic areas include, but are not limited to:

• • • Interaction between firms’ investment and financing decisions
    • Real implications of financial contracts
    • Conflicts of interest between the firm’s stakeholders
    • Real options signaling games
    • Bargaining along the supply chain
    • Interdependence between disclosure and corporate finance
    • Feedback between the firm and financial markets
    • Feedback effects of ratings
    • Corporate governance and shareholder voting
    • Strategic decisions in corporate takeovers

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Stefan Hirth (chair), Aarhus University
Matthias Lassak (co-chair), Aarhus University

Adelina Barbalau, University of Alberta
Ajay Subramanian, Georgia State University
Alexander Schandlbauer, University of Southern Denmark
Alexander Szimayer, Hamburg University
Andrey Malenko, Boston College
Anil Kumar, Aarhus University
Boris Nikolov, University of Lausanne
Cecilia Bustamante, University of Maryland
Chong Huang, University of California, Irvine
Christian Hilpert, Sun Yat-sen University
Christoph Schneider, University of Münster
Christopher Hennessy, London Business School
David Lando, Copenhagen Business School
Dion Bongaerts, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Emilio Bisetti, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Enrique Schroth, EDHEC Business School
Evgeny Lyandres, Tel Aviv University
Florian Kiesel, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Francesca Zucchi, ECB
Francesco Sangiorgi, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Francesco Sannino, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Grzegorz Pawlina, Lancaster University Management School
Günter Strobl, University of Vienna
Jan Schneemeier, Indiana University
Jing Zeng, University of Bonn
Joel Shapiro, Saïd Business School
Kornelia Fabisik, University of Bern
Larissa Schäfer, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Magdalena Rola-Janicka, Imperial College
Marliese Uhrig-Homburg, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Martin Ruckes, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Matthias Efing, HEC Paris
Matthieu Bouvard, Toulouse School of Economics
Nadya Malenko, Boston College
Naveen Gondhi, INSEAD
Paul Voss, HEC Paris
Simon Gervais, Duke University
Thomas Geelen, Copenhagen Business School
Tom Aabo, Aarhus University
Vladimir Vladimirov, University of Amsterdam
Yunzhi Hu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yuri Tserlukevich, Arizona State University
Zacharias Sautner, University of Zurich
Zhen Zhou, Tsinghua University

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Interested authors should submit their papers (with author information or anonymized) via the submission link on the workshop web page https://events.au.dk/corpfin24/ by February 20, 2024. There is no submission fee. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by end of April 2024.

EXPENSES AND PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS: We expect regular participants to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses, as well as a modest participation fee for the catering. We are in the process of securing additional funding, which may allow us to cover further expenses.
The workshop web page https://events.au.dk/corpfin24/ will continuously be updated with current information. Please contact the organizers corpfin@econ.au.dk for questions regarding paper submission and workshop attendance.

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

Der Lehrstuhl für Finanzierung der Universität Mannheim hat gemeinsam mit dem Center for Financial Studies in Kooperation mit der Deutschen Börse AG und gefördert durch die DFG eine Microstructure-Datenbank erstellt, die tägliche Daten aus Xetra für alle im CDAX enthaltenen Aktien und den Zeitraum 1999 bis 2013 enthält. Zu den enthaltenen Variablen gehören etwa quotierte und effektive Geld-Brief-Spannen und viele andere. Diese Datenbank ist für Forscher und ausschliesslich für Forschungszwecke kostenlos verfügbar, wobei aber ein formelles Prozedere einzuhalten ist. Das zum Download bereitgestellte pdf-Dokument enthält nähere Informationen.