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The Banking and Corporate Finance programme brings together researchers interested in all areas of banking and corporate finance and related strands of research.
CEPR has a long history of promoting research in financial economics. The Financial Economics programme has recently split in two; Banking and Corporate Finance (BCF) and Asset Pricing (AP), to provide more targeted conferences and interactions.
Key areas covered by the Banking and Corporate programme are:-
Banks and non-bank intermediaries
Financial stability, insurance and pension companies
Bank supervision and regulation
Financial markets and economic activity
Risk management, monetary policy and central banking
Behavioural corporate finance and financial intermediation
Fintech, big data and machine learning
Corporate governance, capital structure, dividend and payout structure
Corporate control and going public
Finance and labour
Financial innovation, mergers and acquisitions
While aiming to maintain the two strands of Financial Economics separate to the extent possible, CEPR recognises that some researchers are active in areas relevant for BCF and AP programmes. For this reason, Fellows and Affiliates in the BCF programme will also receive calls for papers and other communications by the AP programme, for a time.
The new BCF Symposium will take place annually from 2024.
In 2023 the BCF Group will support the Bocconi - BAFFI CAREFIN - CEPR Workshop On Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance.
Fellows and Affiliates in the BCF programme will meet annually at the European Summer Symposium in Financial Markets (ESSFM). Hosted by the Studienzentrum Gerzensee since 1991, ESSFM includes daily seminars in which participants present their work, as well as less formal seminars scheduled at the beginning of the Symposium. ESSFM is held over two weeks, one of which concentrates on some recent development in corporate finance.
A substantial amount of time is reserved for independent work and collaborative research, which provides participants with a unique opportunity to interact and discuss each other's research. In addition, every Symposium features 'focus sessions', concentrating on the latest developments at the frontier within a specific area of research.