EFiC 2025
Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance
EFiC 2025
Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance
Thursday 26 June and Friday 27 June 2025 Rimini, Italy
The Essex Finance Centre (EFiC) at Essex Business School, the Department of Statistical Sciences “Paolo Fortunati” at the University of Bologna, and the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis-Europe (RCEA-Europe) are jointly organizing the ninth edition of the EFiC Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance that 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 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 student session to present their work and receive developmental feedback from expert PhD mentors.
We solicit papers in the following areas, in alphabetic order, but other related areas may also be considered: Banks and non-banks, Entrepreneurial finance, Banking and financial services, Fintech and financial innovation, Behavioral finance, Climate finance, Big data applied to banking and finance, International finance, Corporate finance, Monetary policy and central banking, Corporate governance, Political economy of central banking, Digital finance, Portfolio and risk management, Diversity and women in finance, Rethinking of financial regulation and supervision, Financial crisis and resolution, SMEs financing.
Keynote Speakers
Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics )
Paper 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.
Registration fees
Standard fee (until 19/05/2025)
Academics €300
Business & Policymakers €350
Students €180
Late fee (until 02/06/2025)
Academics €350
Business & Policymakers €400
Students €150
Conference dinner (Thursday)* €90
Important dates
Submission deadline: Monday 24 March 2025
Decision notification: Monday 7 April 2025
Standard registration deadline: Monday 19 May 2025
Late registration deadline: Monday 2 June 2025
Conference dates: Thursday 26 June - Friday 27 June 2025
Conference Committee
Claudia Girardone, Sotirios Kokas, Anna Sarkisyan (Essex Business School)
Paola Brighi (University of Milan)
Maria Letizia Guerra, Maurizio Mussoni (University of Bologna, RCEA)
Local Organising Committee
Maria Letizia Guerra (University of Bologna), Paola Brighi (University of Milan), Maurizio Mussoni (University of Bologna, RCEA), Carmelo Algeri (University of Bologna), Adriano Bellinvia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Scientific Committee
Karim Abadir (Imperial College London, RCEA)
Rym Ayadi (Bayes Business School, EMANES)
Alexandros Kontonikas (Essex Business School)
Richard Baillie (Michigan State University, RCEA)
Elena Beccalli (Catholic University of Milan)
Thomas Lambert (Erasmus University)
Mascia Bedendo (University of Bologna)
Angela Maddaloni (European Central Bank)
Diana Bonfim (Banco de Portugal)
Alexander Michaelides (Imperial College London)
Claudio Morana (University of Milano-Bicocca, RCEA)
Udichibarna Bose (Essex Business School)
Ekaterini Panopoulou (Essex Business School)
Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University)
George Panos (University of Glasgow)
Barbara Casu-Lukac (Bayes Business School)
Gilles Chemla (Imperial College London, RCEA)
Fotios Pasiouras (Montpellier Business School)
Jerry Coakley (Essex Business School)
Farzad Saidi (University of Bonn)
Paolo Coccorese (University of Salerno)
Michael Straughan (Bank of England)
Douglas J Cumming (Florida State University)
Ian Tonks (University of Bristol)
Claudia Custodio (Imperial College London)
Serafeim Tsoukas (University of Glasgow)
Manthos Delis (Audencia Business School)
John O.S. Wilson (University of St Andrews)
Luísa Farinha (Banco de Portugal)
Geoffrey Wood (Western University London Ontario)
Franco Fiordelisi (Essex Business School)
Eliza Wu (University of Sydney Business School)
Ralph de Haas (EBRD)
José Liñares-Zegarra (Essex Business School)
Vasso Ioannidou (Bayes Business School)
Valeria Venturelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Neil Kellard (Essex Business School)
Conference official web page: see here
