We are delighted to announce The 2023 International Conference on Sustainability, Environment, and Social Transition in Economics and Finance (SESTEF 2023). The conference, jointly organized by University of Southampton Business School (University of Southampton, UK), Audencia Business School,...

The scientific committee invites theoretical, empirical, and applied submissions in three broad areas: CBDC/cryptocurrencies, decentralised finance, and artificial intelligence/machine learning/big data. Preference will be given to submissions that are relevant to various aspects of...

Decentralized Finance (DEFI) is changing the financial landscape. What are the consequences on market infrastructures, financial actors, the transmission of monetary policy? Does the concept of "Commons" introduced by Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, offer a relevant...

Topics: Asset Pricing; Financial Econometrics; Investments; High-Frequency Finance; Factor Allocation; Volatility Modelling; Risk Management; News Sentiment; Sustainable Investing; Machine Learning; Climate Finance; Fintech, DeFi & Crypto; Alternative Data; Extreme Event Modelling.

This year’s conference focuses on the theme of “Institutional Investors, Corporate Governance, and Capital Markets”. Institutional investors can affect decisions in the firms where they invest, through their equity or debt stakes in the firms. Is their governance role beneficial, and how...

We solicit theoretical and empirical papers on the interactions between conventional and unconventional monetary policy, foreign exchange and sovereign debt markets, and the macroeconomy in coronavirus times. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Unconventional monetary policies...

The conference covers all economic and financial aspects of crypto investment, including the pronounced rise in 2021 of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as cryptocurrency and blockchain derived assets. Of particular interest, are strategic perspectives, investment performance perspectives, as well as...

Topics: - Global debt markets and international dimensions of safe asset demand; - Changing structures and new players in global financial markets; - Macroeconomic consequences of dominant currencies in global financial markets; - Deviations from covered interest parity and exchange rate...

Topics: Financial crises; Governance of Financial Institutions; The role of central banks and regulators; Financial innovation; International regulatory coordination; Certification in financial markets.

This event allows both scholars and finance professionals alike to exchange and confront innovative and thought-provoking ideas about financial market dynamics and nonlinear econometrics. This event will take place on face to face or online according to the evolution of the pandemic situation!