EFiC Conference in Banking and Finance 2018

Keynote speaker

Professor Hashem Pesaran, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and the John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics at the University of Southern California

Memorial lecture speaker

Professor Ron Smith, Professor of Applied Economics at Birkbeck, University of London

Invited panellists

• Angus Armstrong, Lloyds Banking Group
• David Miles, Imperial College, London
• Alison Scott, Bank of England
• Michael Straughan, Bank of England, Chair

Invited presenters

• Diana Bonfim, Bank of Portugal
• Chris Brooks, ICMA University of Reading
• Barbara Casu, Cass Business School
• Geraldo Cerqueiro, Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics
• Mardi Dungey, University of Tasmania
• Emilia Garcia Appendini, University of Zurich
• Christian Eufinger, IESE Business School
• Rhiannon Sowerbutts, Bank of England
• Gert Peersman, Ghent University
• Francesco Vallascas, University of Leeds
• John O.S. Wilson, University of St. Andrews

Submission procedure

PhD students wishing to present their research in the form of a paper or a poster at the conference should send their manuscripts to efic@essex.ac.uk and use as subject ‘PhD Paper MMF-EFiC2018’.

Download paper and poster submission guidance (.pdf)

Important dates

Deadline for Submission: Monday 14 May 2018

Notification of Acceptance: Monday 21 May 2018

Conference Registration Deadline: Monday 4 June 2018

Conference Dates: Thursday 5 and Friday 6 July 2018

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• asset pricing
• banking
• behavioural finance
• commodity markets
• corporate finance
• financing of SMEs
• financial econometrics
• big data
• international finance
• corporate finance
• portfolio and risk management

Local organising committee

• Claudia Girardone
• Sotirios Kokas

Steering committee/co-chairs

• Jerry Coakley, Essex Business School
• Neil Kellard, Essex Business School
• Alexandros Kontonikas, Essex Business School 
• Simon Price, Essex Business School
• Michael Straughan, Bank of England

PhD Session

• Theodora Bermpei, Essex Business School, 
• Dimitris Korobilis, Essex Business School 
• Michael Lamla, Essex Business School

Scientific committee

• Elena Beccalli, Catholic University of Milan
• Barbara Casu-Lukac, Cass Business School
• Paolo Coccorese, University of Salerno
• Manthos Delis, Montpellier Business School
• Franco Fiordelisi, University of Rome III
• Alexander Michaelides, Imperial College London
• Philip Molyneux, University of Sharjah
• Fotios Pasiouras, Technical University of Crete
• Anna Sarkisyan, Essex Business School
• A. Robert Taylor, Essex Business School 
• Ian Tonks, University of Bath 
• Mark Wohar, University of Nebraska at Omaha 
• Jose Linares-Zegarra, Essex Business School
• John O.S. Wilson, University of St Andrews

Organising research centres

• The Essex Finance Centre (EFiC)
• The Essex Centre for Macro and Financial Econometrics (ECMFE)

Sponsors

• The Money Macro Finance Research Group 
• Bank of England
• Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Australian National University
• Bureau van Dijk

Best student paper and poster prizes

• Pearson Education
• Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Australian National University

The conference takes place at our Colchester Campus. Colchester is an hour away from London by train.

• How to find the University of Essex's Colchester Campus

We are pleased to announce that the sixth annual EFiC John Nankervis memorial lecture will be given by Professor Ron Smith (Birkbeck, London) on 5 July at 6pm - 7.30pm. Attendance to the memorial is FREE and open to all.

John died in 2012 and is hugely missed by his colleagues.

An outstanding researcher, John’s work was published in many of the top journals in econometrics, including: Econometrica; the Journal of Econometrics; the Journal of the American Statistical Association; the Journal of Business Economics and Statistics; Econometric Theory and the Econometrics Journal. His work was also published in leading international economics and finance journals, such as the International Economic Review, the Journal of Empirical Finance and the European Journal of Finance.