Essex Finance Centre (EFiC) 2020 Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance

Professor Steven Ongena

Steven Ongena is a Professor of Banking in the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich, a senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute, a research professor at KU Leuven, and a research fellow in financial economics of CEPR.

He is also a research professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Before moving to Zurich, he taught at CentER-Tilburg University and BI Norwegian Business School and studied at the University of Oregon (PhD), the Univeristy of Alberta (MA) and KU Leuven (MBA, Hir).

The rules for the solicitation process in the JFSR are as follows:

1. Author(s) must expressly indicate interest in consideration by the JFSR in their submission email. The paper must not be under review at another journal or the JFSR, nor can they be considered if previously rejected by the JFSR.

2. A committee composed of the Local Conference Committee and the JFSR Editor Steven Ongena will invite papers among the accepted papers after the conference presentations for possible publication in the JFSR. Submission fees will be waived for invited conference papers. Papers of authors accepting this invitation will undergo a normal review process that maintains the JFSR's high-quality publication standards.
3. If an invited paper is subsequently rejected, its authors have the option to submit a future version of their paper to the JFSR without prejudice.
4. While under consideration by the Conference and the JFSR, a paper may not be submitted to another journal (or the JFSR) until the author has been notified of the outcome.

Local Committee

• Claudia Girardone, Founding Member, Essex Business School
• Sotirios Kokas, Founding Member, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
• Anna Sarkisyan, Essex Business School

Steering committee / Chairs

• Udichibarna Bose, Essex Business School
• Jerry Coakley, Essex Business School
• Franco Fiordelisi, Essex Business School
• Neil Kellard, Essex Business School
• Alexandros Kontonikas, Essex Business School
• Jose Linares Zegarra, Essex Business School
• Ekaterini Panopoulou, Essex Business School
• Simon Price, Essex Business School
• Michael Straughan, Bank of England

Scientific committee

• Rym Ayadi, Euro-Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies 
• Elena Beccalli, Catholic University of Milan
• Mascia Bedendo, University of Bologna 
• Diana Bonfim, Banco de Portugal
• Fabio Braggion, Tilburg University
• Barbara Casu-Lukac, Cass Business School
• Paolo Coccorese, University of Salerno
• Douglas J Cumming, Florida State University
• Claudia Custodio, Imperial College London
• Manthos Delis, Montpellier Business School
• Luisa Farinha, Banco de Portugal
• Ralph de Haas, EBRD
• Vasso Ioannidou, Lancaster University 
• Thomas Lambert, Erasmus University
• Angela Maddaloni, European Central Bank
• Alexander Michaelides, Imperial College London
• Philip Molyneux, University of Sharjah
• George Panos, University of Glasgow
• Fotios Pasiouras, Technical University of Crete
• Farzad Saidi, Boston University
• Serafeim Tsoukas, University of Glasgow
• Ian Tonks, University of Bristol
• Mark Wohar, University of Nebraska at Omaha
• John O.S. Wilson, University of St Andrews
• Geoff Wood, Western University, Canada

Organising research centres

• Essex Finance Centre (EFiC)

• Submission deadline:  Monday 30 March 2020
• Acceptance:                 Monday 4 May 2020
• Conference dates:        Friday 10 July - Saturday 11 July 2020

The EFiC Conference 2020 will be taking place at the Essex Business School at the University of Essex Colchester Campus.

Colchester is an hour away from London by train.

How to find the University of Essex Colchester Campus