Financial Economics

Research in the Financial Economics (FE) programme covers:

Financial Markets

Pricing of Securities and Derivatives
Asset Pricing and Business Cycles
Microstructure and Regulation of Markets
Financial Decision Making
International Finance

Corporate Finance

Financial Structure, Security Design and and Firms’ Decisions
Going Public
Corporate Control and Governance

Banking

Financial Intermediation
Bank Supervision and Regulation
Banking, Financial Markets, and Economic Activity

The Financial Economics Programme is directed by Franklin Allen (Imperial College, London).

FE Spring Symposium

Since 2016, the FE programme has included the FE Spring Symposium, covering any area of financial economics and reserving a number of spaces for younger European scholars, based in Europe or overseas.

2018, hosted by Imperial College Business School, 23-24 April 2018
2017, hosted by Imperial College Business School, 24-25 April 2017
2016, hosted by Imperial College Business School, 7-8 April 2016

ESSFM

Fellows and Affiliates in the FE Programme meet annually at the European Summer Symposium in Financial Markets (ESSFM). Hosted since 1991 by the Studienzentrum Gerzensee, ESSFM includes daily seminars in which participants present their work, as well as less formal seminars scheduled at the beginning of the Symposium. A substantial amount of time is reserved for independent work and collaborative research, which provides participants with a unique opportunity to interact and discuss each other's research. In addition, every Symposium features 'focus sessions', each of which concentrates on the latest developments at the research frontier in a specific area of research.

Recent Symposia include:

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