Essex Finance Centre (EFiC) 2022 Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance

Mireia Giné

Mireia Giné is an Associate Professor of Finance at IESE Business School and the Director of International Initiatives at Wharton Research Data Services. She is a CEPR Research Fellow, a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network. She is also a board member at Sabadell Asset Management.

Mireia’s research focuses on corporate finance, corporate governance, and Fintech, and has been published in top academic journals and media outlets. She has also received several international prizes for her work including the Brattle Prize.

Mireia Giné full conference bio

Douglas Cumming

Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Douglas is also a Visiting Professor of Finance at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK.

Douglas has published over 200 articles in leading refereed academic journals (including 38 in Financial Times top 50 journals) in finance, management, and law and economics, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Economic Journal, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. His work has been cited over 21,000 times according to Google Scholar.

He is the Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Corporate Finance (2021-current) and the British Journal of Management (2020-current). He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics.

Douglas has published 21 academic books, including Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights (Elsevier Academic Press, 2019) for which his course materials are freely available online.

Douglas’ work has been reviewed in numerous media outlets, including The Economist, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, the National Post, and The New Yorker.

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Local committee

Claudia Girardone, Essex Business School
Sotirios Kokas, Essex Business School
Anna Sarkisyan, Essex Business School

PhD session organiser

Yiwei Li, Essex Business School

Scientific committee

Rym Ayadi, Bayes Business School and EMNES

Elena Beccalli, Catholic University of Milan

Mascia Bedendo, University of Bologna

Diana Bonfim, Banco de Portugal

Udichibarna Bose, Essex Business School

Fabio Braggion, Tilburg University

Barbara Casu-Lukac, Bayes Business School

Jerry Coakley, Essex 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

Franco Fiordelisi, Essex Business School

Ralph de Haas, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Vasso Ioannidou, Bayes Business School

Neil Kellard, Essex Business School

Alexandros Kontonikas, Essex Business School

Thomas Lambert, Erasmus University

Angela Maddaloni, European Central Bank

Alexander Michaelides, Imperial College London

Philip Molyneux, University of Sharjah

Ekaterini Panopoulou, Essex Business School

George Panos, University of Glasgow

Fotios Pasiouras, Montpellier Business School

Simon Price, Essex Business School

Farzad Saidi, University of Bonn

Michael Straughan, Bank of England

Ian Tonks, University of Bristol

Serafeim Tsoukas, University of Glasgow

John O.S. Wilson, University of St Andrews

Geoffrey Wood, Western University London Ontario

José Liñares-Zegarra, Essex Business School

Registration fees cover administration costs and best paper award

 *from 24 June 2022

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