Forthcoming Events

The organising and program committees, along with the organising institutions (Glasgow University - Cyprus University of Technology - Durham University Business School - KU Leuven - Fordham University - Montpellier Business School - University of Zurich - Centre for Economic Policy Research) invite submissions of high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation, corporate finance, and their intersection.

The academic program starts Monday morning (September 2) and ends Tuesday afternoon (September 3).

There will be 10 papers presented and discussed (mostly by members of the program committee), and two vigorous poster sessions featuring another 10 papers. There will also be ample time for discussion, reflection, and outdoor activities.

Authors will be notified about the acceptance of papers by May 1, 2019 and the conference programme will be released in late May 2019.

There is no conference fee and no accommodation cost for the invited presenters, discussants and chairs; but all participants must cover their own travel costs.

Due to competition and capacity constraints, preference will be given to participants who will stay for the whole duration of the conference.

CONFERENCE FEES

There is no conference fee or accommodations costs for the invited presenters, discussants and session chairs.

A limited number of free-seats will be allocated to PhD students who would like to attend the conference without presenting (upon presentation of an official letter showing evidence confirming their status).

Faculty or practitioners who would like to attend the conference without presenting must register by August 20, 2019 for a fee of ?250

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

To submit a paper please visit the call for papers webpage. The deadline for submission is 6pm (GMT), Wednesday 10 April 2019. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mariolina Ciccone, CEPR Events team at [email protected] for assistance (with subject header ?5716 ? 2nd Endless Summer Conference?).

VENUE

Sea View Hotel 4 Xanthou st, Glyfada Athens 166 74 Greece

The hotel is accessible from the Athens International Airport by taxi or bus (route X96 to stop Asteria). Approximate travel time by bus is 35 minutes (https://www.athensairportbus.com/en/timetable/x96airporttopiraeusport.html) and approximate travel time by taxi is 20-25 minutes.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Panayiotis C. Andreou (Cyprus University of Technology)

Hans Degryse (KU Leuven & CEPR)

Ralph De Haas (EBRD & Tilburg University)

Manthos Delis (Montpellier Business School)

Iftekhar Hasan (Fordham University & Bank of Finland)

Sotirios Kokas (Glasgow University)

Steven Ongena (University of Zurich, SFI, KU Leuven & CEPR)

Dennis Philip (Durham University)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Tobias Berg (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

Arnoud Boot (University of Amsterdam & CEPR)

Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University)

Martin Brown (University of St. Gallen)

Elena Carletti (Bocconi University & CEPR)

Giacinta Cestone (Cass Business School)

Ian Cooper (London Business School)

Olivier De Jonghe (National Bank of Belgium & Tilburg University)

Bill Francis (Lally School of Management)

Pedro Gete (IE Business School)

Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics & CEPR)

Linda Goldberg (Federal Reserve)

Vasso Ioannidou (Lancaster University & CEPR)

Elisabeth Kempf (Chicago Booth)

Alex Michaelides (Imperial College London & CEPR)

Roni Michaely (University of Geneva)

Daniel Paravisini (LSE)

José-Luis Peydró (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CREI, Barcelona GSE & CEPR)

Alexander Popov (ECB)

Raghavendra Rau (Cambridge Judge Business School)

Lucio Sarno (Cass Business School & CEPR)

Larissa Schäfer (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University)

Sascha Steffen (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

Neeltje van Horen (Bank of England & CEPR)

Patrick Verwijmeren (Erasmus School of Economics)

Wolf Wagner (Erasmus University Rotterdam & CEPR)

Yihui Wang (Fordham University)

David Yermack (NYU)

FURTHER INFORMATION

The CEPR annual symposium of the Development Economics Programme will be hosted by Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday 4 September and Thursday 5 September, 2019. The workshop is organised by TIME (Trinity College Dublin), STICERD (London School of Economics) and CEPR and is funded by Irish Aid. We now invite submissions for this conference from interested researchers on any topic within the area of Development Economics. The deadline for submission is Monday 20 May 2019.

We accept both full-length papers and extended abstracts for projects at an advanced stage. A pre-conference session will also be arranged for junior faculty to get the opportunity to present their work. Please use the same submission process (selecting the Pre-Conference session in your application) if you would like your work to be considered for this part of the conference.

Funding

The sponsoring institutions can cover accommodation and travel according to the CEPR guidelines for presenters and discussants. However, funding is limited and we encourage more senior participants to use their own grants to cover costs.

How to apply

Please note that there will be time for only a small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half; there are no parallel sessions. Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission online at call for papers website. Authors who are not CEPR members can create a profile online here. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting please contact Mandy Chan [email protected].

We aim to notify successful applicants by mid-June 2019.

Scientific Organisers:

Oriana Bandiera (LSE and CEPR)

Robin Burgess (LSE and CEPR)

Andrea Guariso (Trinity College Dublin and TIME)

Carol Newman (Trinity College Dublin and TIME)

We invite you to submit a paper or express interest in attending this conference on New Consumption Data. The conference will take place on 4-5 September 2019, hosted by the Department of Economics and the Center of Economic Behavior and Inequality, CEBI, at the University of Copenhagen. Recently, a wave of research on consumption has introduced new types of spending data. One line of research exploits new administrative data and explore new methods to measure consumption and consumption responses based on imputing spending. Other researchers have gained access to extremely detailed and high frequency spending data directly from banks or financial planning apps. By now, this has turned into an extremely active and fruitful area of research, opening new and interesting perspectives in various fields in economics, from labor to public economics, from household finance to macroeconomics.

The goal of the conference is to bring people interested in the topic together to present new research using these new data and methods to measure spending, discuss pros and cons and exchange best practices, etc.

Relevant topics include, but is not limited to:

The event provides an opportunity for researchers from different universities and countries to discuss their work in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term collaborative relationships. The conference brings together around 30-40 economists for a period of two days. To foster the desired interaction we ask that participants stay for the entire duration of the conference.

Funding Economy fare travel and accommodation expenses will be covered for presenters. If you could contribute to the costs of your attendance from a research grant at your disposal, however, this would free up funds for other participants. Please indicate in your application whether you will be able to cover your own travel costs, or whether you will require funding.

How to apply For CEPR members, please submit your paper via the CEPR online system by visiting the call for papers webpage . If you do not have a personal profile to use this area of the CEPR website as yet, you can create one here. If you have any difficulty in applying, please email Mariolina Ciccone in the CEPR events team, at [email protected] with the subject header "3577- New Consumption Data". If you wish to attend please do ensure that your application and paper reach CEPR by 18:00 (GMT) April 1, 2019. We cannot accept submissions received after this date. It may not be possible to accept all applications to attend this symposium if demand exceeds the space available. We aim to notify successful applicants by the end of May 2019.

The Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) welcomes submissions for its 2019 Corporate Finance Theory Symposium to be held in Cambridge UK, Clare College, 13-14 September 2019.

The symposium covers all areas of theoretical corporate finance, including theory papers that combine corporate finance theory with a related area such as banking, market micro-structure, asset pricing, and financial accounting.

The format of the 2019 symposium will be similar in nature to previous years? editions (Previous Conferences). We expect to have about 9 papers (each with a discussant) and one keynote speech. This year?s keynote speaker will be Itay Goldstein , Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor, Professor of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Please submit your paper (in pdf format) by clicking the following link: Electronic Submission Form.

The symposium is organized in collaboration with the Journal of Corporate Finance. Authors can opt to have their paper considered by the Journal of Corporate Finance under the dual submission review process. Decisions on acceptance of a paper to the symposium do not depend on whether a paper has also been entered for the dual submission review process.

Please read carefully before submitting your paper: Further Information and Requirements The paper?s cover page must include: a title, abstract, authors' names and affiliations, and the email address of the corresponding author.

The deadline for submissions is 25 February 2019. The submitted paper must not have been accepted (or conditionally accepted) at a journal at the time of submission.

The corresponding author of selected papers will be informed around 30 April 2019.

Conference Organisers:

Bart Lambrecht (CERF, Cambridge Judge Business School and CEPR)

Denis Gromb (HEC Paris)

Programme Committee

Participants

The school is targeted to graduate students, doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers in economics and related disciplines. Students are expected to attend the school full time.

Fees and Scholarships

Participants will be charged 550? covering registration, accommodation, meals and background material. A limited number of fee waivers can be assigned to students from Developing Countries.

Applications and deadlines

The participants will be selected by the Selection Committee on the basis of the information included in the application forms.

There will be a few slots for students' presentations, and priority will be given to those going on the Job Market this fall.

Applications can be downloaded from: https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/Application_18th_ss.docx and should be submitted to [email protected].

The deadline for submission is May 24, 2019. Late applications will not be accepted. Applicants will be informed by email about the results by June 7, 2019.

Location

The school will take place at Palazzo Feltrinelli, on Lake Garda (Italy). This beautiful historical Villa is now owned by the University of Milan and is dedicated to Workshop and Meeting activities. Gargnano is a small resort village on Lake Garda, about 150 km east of Milan. Local Information will be provided to participants in due course.

General Description We are pleased to announce details of the latest three-day EABCN Training School. Professor Wouter den Haan and Dr Pontus Rendahl will teach the course. It is primarily aimed at participants in the Euro Area Business Cycle Network but applications will also be considered from doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and economists working in central banks and government institutions outside of the network, as well as commercial organisations (fees applicable for non-network organisations).

Course Contents: This course is divided in to two parts, both directed to numerical solution methods of macroeconomic models.

Day 1: In the first part, focus will be on regime switching linear(ized) models. These entails models that display significant nonlinearities across different regimes, but are otherwise well approximated linearly within a regime. Examples of such frameworks are models that can be in and out of a liquidity trap/the zero lower bound (ZLB), or models that otherwise face occasionally binding constraints. The day will focus on appropriate solution methods that are both fast and versatile.

Day 2 and 3: In the second part (day two and three), focus will be on heterogeneous agent models (also known as incomplete markets models). The equilibrium of such models contain a full, endogenous, distribution of agents across income and wealth status, which (can) make them cumbersome to solve and analyse. The first day will focus on such models absent of any aggregate disturbances, while the second will include the challenges involved when aggregate shocks perturb the economy.

How to apply: The course will take place at the Bank of England in London, UK. Participants will be invited to make their own arrangements regarding their travel, accommodation and meals. Further information will be available to successful applicants. Candidates who have a CEPR profile should apply by submitting their CV online by visiting the call for applications webpage . If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create a new one here. PhD students should also send a statement that specifies the ways participating in the school will be useful for their current research (max 300 words).

Participants from non-academic institutions where the employer is not a member of the EABCN network are charged a course fee of 2000 euro.

Applications deadline is 6pm (GMT), 17 May 2019.

If you have any issues logging in, please contact Mariolina Ciccone, Events Officer at CEPR, [email protected].

The (draft) papers should be submitted by Monday 15 April 2019. Please upload (draft) papers here: https://portal.cepr.org/economics-social-sector-organisations-esso-entrepreneurship-economics-ent-and-incentives-management. Please indicate whether or not you would require travel and/or accommodation funding and whether you would be willing to act as a discussant on the programme.

If you do not currently have a CEPR profile or not a CEPR member, please create a new profile here https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mandy Chan, Events Officer, at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8804.

Economics of Social Sector Organisations explores the set of organisations that are neither traditional for-profit firms nor governmental entities but which address social issues and have social objectives.

Incentives, Management and Organisation covers areas such as organisational economics, personnel economics, management and productivity, incentives and contracts, bounded rationality, and behavioral economics.

Economics of Entrepreneurship covers entrepreneurship and institutions, financing entrepreneurship (venture capital/business angels), experimentation and entrepreneurship, job creation and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in the theory of the firm, and entrepreneurship from an industrial organisation perspective.

Papers selected for presentation will be eligible for the Prize for Outstanding Research in Organisation and Management. We thank the Unicredit and Universities Foundation for sponsoring this year's prize. If you would like to have your paper considered for the Prize, please let us know in your submission in the comment box.

FUNDING: Accommodation expenses will be covered for successful applicants. Participants are encouraged to fund their travel expenses from other sources, as only limited funding is available. Where financial support is offered, this will be in accordance with CEPR Expense Guidelines.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR INCENTIVES, MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION

Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics and CEPR, Morten Bennedsen, University of Copenhagen, INSEAD and CEPR, Guido Friebel, Goethe University, Frankfurt and CEPR, Maria Guadalupe, INSEAD and CEPR, Marco Ottaviani, Bocconi University and CEPR, Andrea Prat, Columbia University and CEPR, Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics and CEPR

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL SECTOR ORGANIZATION

Nava Ashraf, LSE and CEPR, Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago Booth and CEPR, Robert Gertner, University of Chicago Booth, Maitreesh Ghatak, LSE and CEPR, Emir Kamenica, University of Chicago Booth

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECONOMICS

Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance and CEPR, Thomas Hellmann, Sauder School of Business, William Kerr, Harvard Business School, Lars Persson, Research Institute of Industrial Economics and CEPR, Mirjam van Praag, Copenhagen Business School and CEPR, Fabiano Schivardi, Università Bocconi and CEPR, Yossi Spiegel, Coller School of Management - Tel Aviv University, CEPR, and ZEW

The CEPR Network on Household Finance, Copenhagen Business School, EDHEC Business School, and the Swedish House of Finance, with the support of the Think Forward Initiative (TFI) are organising the 2019 CEPR European Conference on Household Finance. The objective is to present state-of-the-art empirical and theoretical research on household financial behaviour and on how it is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. The two-day research conference is preceded by a CEPR-TFI event on "Big Tech and Fin Tech", organised by Amit Seru (Stanford and CEPR) and Andreas Fuster (Swiss Central Bank and CEPR), at 18:00 on 19 September. The conference will include a dinner talk by Gikas Hardouvelis (University of Pireaus and CEPR), former minister of finance, and poster presentations by diaNEOsis on the current stand of the Greek crisis.

The organisers particularly encourage submissions from PhD students in household finance planning to go on the job market in Winter 2020. Students must apply online stating that they are a PhD student and supply their CV. Top submissions, written exclusively by students, will be included in the regular workshop programme and in the candidates for the best student paper prize, awarded by the CEPR Network on Household Finance and sponsored by TFI. A number of past awardees and contestants have moved on to assistant professor positions in top academic institutions globally.

We solicit papers in the following areas, but other related areas may also be considered:

• Asset allocation and debt behaviour over the life cycle
• Financing retirement and the demographic transition
• Consumer indebtedness, financial distress, and default decisions
• Behavioural approaches to household finance
• Financial literacy and financial education programs
• Trust, subjective expectations, pessimism, and financial decisions
• International comparisons of household finances using micro-data
• Financial advice and investors' and borrowers' protection
• Financial innovation and household finances
• Households liquidity and risk management

Programme Committee

Laurent E. Calvet (EDHEC Paris, CFS, and CEPR), Joao Cocco (London Business School, CFS, and CEPR), Russell Cooper (European University Institute), Francisco Gomes (London Business School and CEPR), Luigi Guiso (EIEF and CEPR), Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR), Tullio Jappelli (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and CEPR), Matti Keloharju (Aalto University and CEPR), Alex Michaelides (Imperial College and CEPR), Monica Paiella (University of Naples Parthenope), Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore), Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial Business School and CEPR), Paolo Sodini (Stockholm School of Economics and SHoF), Raman Uppal (EDHEC and CEPR), Stephen Zeldes (Columbia University and NBER).

Local Organisers

Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR) and Alex Michaelides (Imperial Business School and CEPR)

Conference Venue

The conference will be held at Rodos Palace Hotel, Iraklidon Avenue (Trianton), Ixia P.O.Box 121, 85100 Rhodes, Greece.

Conference Submission and Deadline

The submission fee for each paper is 50 Euro and proceeds will contribute to covering conference costs. The submission fee is waived for PhD students only. Full instructions on the submission process can be found below.

a) For others than PhD students

1. Please make the submission fee payment of 50 Euro via the following link on CEPR?s Paypal account https://www.paypal.com/webapps/hermes?token=1FH17266C6895944U&useraction=commit&mfid=1560340293237_fd96a4c5d0cd2#/checkout/guest. If you do not have an existing Paypal account, you can use the guest checkout feature. Please make sure that you select the correct country/region using the dropdown list before filling in your card details and click on the "Pay Now" button to complete the transaction.

2. Please submit your paper using the CEPR portal. Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission on https://portal.cepr.org/cepr-european-conference-household-finance-2019. If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create one at https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above. Click on the "Register/Submit" button in order to submit your paper only, there will be a separate conference registration process to express your interest in attending the workshop at a later stage.

3. When submitting your paper, please indicate whether you have funds to cover your own travel and accommodation costs, or whether you will require funding. This information does not affect inclusion of your paper, but it will be used to determine the level of your reimbursement, if any.

b) For PhD students

1. Please submit your paper using the CEPR portal. Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission on https://portal.cepr.org/cepr-european-conference-household-finance-2019. If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create one at https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above. Click on the "Register/Submit" button in order to submit your paper only, there will be a separate conference registration process to express your interest in attending the workshop at a later stage.

2. When submitting your paper, please indicate whether you will be able to cover your own travel and accommodation costs, or whether you will require funding. This information will not affect selection of your paper, but it will be used to determine the level of your reimbursement, if any. Please also indicate clearly that you are a PhD student and submit your CV. In case your paper is co-authored, please indicate also whether all your coauthors were PhD students at the time of writing the paper, in which case your paper can be entered for the PhD student prize.

The deadline for submissions is 18:00 (GMT), Friday 5 July 2019. Expenses of paper presenters and discussants will be covered, unless they indicate that they are able to cover their own expenses. Limited support funds for PhD students will also be available. Applications for attendance without a paper presentation will be possible once the programme is finalised in late July 2019, and available places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mandy Chan, Senior Events Officer at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8804.

Together with the ABFER and the CEPR, the Bank for International Settlements is hosting a two-day workshop on "Fintech and Digital Currencies". Taking place on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 September 2019 in Basel, the conference aims to stimulate debate and research on financial innovation and the digital economy.

The workshop will bring together leading academics, central bankers and bank supervisors. The topics discussed will include, but are not limited to:

• Implications for financial markets of the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), big data and crypto-assets, and the macroeconomic outcomes;
• Technological innovations in financial and payment systems: implications for financial intermediation;
• Consequences of digitalisation for financial stability, monetary transmission and the conduct of monetary policy;
• How financial innovation can help central banks to achieve their mandates;
• Central bank digital currencies: pros and cons;
• How central banks and financial regulators might respond to recent financial innovations;
• Big data and consumer protection in the financial sector;
• Financial innovation and new funding models (eg ICOs); and
• Technology and financial inclusion.

If you would like to submit a paper, please visit https://portal.cepr.org/fintech-and-digital-currencies-conference and indicate whether or not you wish to present a paper or act as a discussant. You will also be asked to specify your funding requirements. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mandy Chan, Events Officer at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8804. If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create one at https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above.

The submission deadline is 31 March 2019 (18:00 GMT). Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 30 April 2019. There is no conference fee. Travel and accommodation expenses for academic speakers on the programme will be covered.

The Centre for Economic Performance [CEP] at the London School of Economics and Political Science will host the eleventh annual Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (CURE) on 27-28 September 2019. The conference will run for two days, from the morning of Friday 27 September through the afternoon of Saturday 28 September. The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working at the frontiers on topics in urban and regional economics from around the world to present, discuss and participate in the workshop.

You are invited to submit a paper dealing with urban and regional topics; both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Papers on the developing world, as well as developed are welcome. Please also reply if you are interested in attending the event, but do not wish to present a paper. The conference will cover local accommodations and meals for all participants but, at this stage, can only commit to financing the travel costs of presenters and discussants. Of course, if you have alternative sources of funding, please indicate your willingness to use these sources. This will help fund travel for participants who do not have other sources of funding, young researchers in particular.

Please submit your paper or indicate your interest in participating at the link below: https://portal.cepr.org/eleventh-annual-conference-urban-and-regional-economics-cure.

If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create a new profile here https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mandy Chan, Events Officer at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8804.

The deadline for submission of papers is 5PM Coordinated Universal Time (or GMT) on Friday 31May 2019.

Sincerely,