EFiC 2021 Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance

The rules for the solicitation process by 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 it be considered if previously rejected by the JFSR.
2. The Guest Editors for the Special Issue, namely Claudia Girardone, Sotirios Kokas and Steven Ongena, will invite high quality papers among the accepted papers after the conference presentations for possible publication in the JFSR. Submission fees will be waived for these invited conference papers. Papers of the author(s) 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 author(s) will 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 JFRS, a paper may not be submitted to another journal (or the JFSR) until the author(s) has been notified of the outcome.

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 Universities of Oregon (PhD), Alberta (MA) and KU Leuven (MBA, Hir).

Local Committee

• Claudia Girardone, Founding Member, Essex Business School
• Sotirios Kokas, Founding Member, Essex Business School
• 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, Bayes Business School and 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, Bayes Business School
• Paolo Coccorese, University of Salerno
• Douglas J Cumming, Florida State University
• Claudia Custodio, Imperial College London
• Manthos Delis, Montpellier Business School
• Luísa Farinha, Banco de Portugal
• Ralph de Haas, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 
• Vasso Ioannidou, Bayes Business School
• 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, Montpellier Business School
• Farzad Saidi, Boston University
• Ian Tonks, University of Bristol
• Serafeim Tsoukas, University of Glasgow
• John O.S. Wilson, University of St Andrews
• Geoffrey Wood, Western University, Canada