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3rd CEPR Conference
Politics, Corporations and the Common Good

Friday 20 October 2023 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Submissions deadline: Sunday 11 June 2023

 

The Event

This is the third edition of an annual conference series on the Political Economy of Finance. The series is an initiative of PolEconFin, a platform for researchers active in the political economy of finance. This edition will be dedicated to the intersection between firms' political power, their stakeholders and society at large.

The academic programme will consist of six paper presentations with discussants, and also feature a keynote lecture by Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago Booth School of business).

The question of the purpose of firms in society is receiving renewed attention. The rise of ESG and, especially, the many challenges facing society such as climate change bring the attention of academics and policy-makers to the (political) role of firms in providing common good and shaping the political landscape around them. Developments on the political economy of finance literature are intimately related to the literature studying how stakeholders affect firm objectives and the pursuit of the common good. This edition aims to showcase studies on the political economy of finance addressing these issues of our time.

The organising committee invites submissions of theoretical and empirical papers on these issues. Topics of interest for the conference include:
  • The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Corporate Lobbying, Regulation, and the Environment
  • Political Ideology and Firm Value
  • The Political Economy of Corporate Governance
  • Political Influence, Competition, and Innovation
  • Political Institutions and Corporations
  • Corporate Power, Academic Research, and Society
  • Markets, Firms, and Money in Politics


Further information
The conference will be held in-person in Rotterdam. The conference is scheduled on Friday 20 October 2023 and followed by a dinner with all participants.


Organising committee:
• Thomas Lambert, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Enrico Perotti, University of Amsterdam and CEPR
• Magdalena Rola-Janicka, Tilburg University

Programme committee:

  • Pat Akey, University of Toronto
  • Matilde Bombardini, University of California Berkeley and CEPR
  • Dana Foarta, Stanford University and CEPR
  • Nandini Gupta, Indiana University
  • Deniz Igan, Bank for International Settlements and CEPR
  • Elisabeth Kempf, Harvard University and CEPR
  • Orkun Saka, City, University of London
  • Boris Vallee, Harvard University
  • Paolo Volpin, Drexel University and CEPR
  • Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden, University of Mannheim and CEPR

The conference is co-funded by Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis at Imperial College London, Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Amsterdam.


Contact
Conference website: poleconfin.org 
Email: [email protected]

 

The papers should be submitted by Sunday 11 June 2023. Please indicate in your submission if you are willing to act as a discussant.

Please upload papers here:

Authors who already have a CEPR HUB profile can upload their submission by:

  1. Going to https://hub.cepr.org/ and logging in
  2. After you have logged in, go to https://hub.cepr.org/event/3900
  3. Click on "Step 1: Apply"
  4. Under "Apply to Attend" click "Yes"
  5. Tick the boxes that apply to you 
  6. Tick "Would you like to submit a paper?", upload your paper and supply the requested information, including which session the paper is for (Asset Pricing or Corporate Finance)
  7. Click "Submit form" to make the submission.

Authors who do not have a CEPR HUB profile can upload their submission by:

  1. Creating a new profile here https://hub.cepr.org/user/register
  2. After you have logged in, go to https://hub.cepr.org/event/3900
  3. Click on "Step 1: Apply"
  4. Under "Apply to Attend" click "Yes"
  5. Tick the boxes that apply to you 
  6. Tick "Would you like to submit a paper?", upload your paper and supply the requested information, including which session the paper is for (Asset Pricing or Corporate Finance)
  7. Click "Submit form" to make the submission.


If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting please contact Despoina Chatzilari at  [email protected].