CF&AP SIG Annual Conference 2024
Friday 6 - Friday 6 September 2024 School of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Greenwich Business SchoolWe are pleased to invite you to the Conference of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing SIG. on 6 September 2024 The conference will be hosted by the School of Accounting, Finance and Economics of Greenwich Business School (GBS). Conference theme: Sustainable Finance in Transition.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Peter G. Szilagyi, Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School and Editor of the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (ABS: 3; SJR: Q1). He was previously Associate Professor at Central European University and Assistant Professor at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD at Tilburg University and held a research fellowship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is also Subject Editor at Emerging Markets Review and Associate Editor at Finance Research Letters. He has published more than 30 papers in leading international journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Abacus, European Financial Management, International Review of Financial Analysis, amongst others.Roundtable Panel Discussion
Roundtable Panel Discussion
The hybrid conference will feature a roundtable panel discussion on sustainable finance, environmental & social accountability, Net Zero regulations and policies, and pioneering projects relevant to education, organisations and society. The panel speakers are Professor Xi Liang (University College London) and Professor Claudia Custodio (Imperial College).
- Dr Cláudia Custódio, Associate Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School since 2016. She is Associate Editor of Financial Management, and a research associate at the FMG and ECGI. She is also a CEPR research fellow. Her research focus is Corporate Finance, and her work has been published several times in academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. She is also the author of a Corporate Finance textbook in Portuguese "Finanças da Empresa". In 2019 she was awarded an ERC starting grant to study the impact of financial constraints of small firms on firm growth.
- Professor Xi Liang. Professor of Sustainable Construction and Project Management at Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction at University College London. He is also a Standing Committee Member for China’s Climate Investment and Finance Association (CIFA) and Deputy Director for China’s CCUS Committee, within Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences. His research in Climate Finance, Carbon Market, Energy Policies, Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS), received a total grant income support of £6.2 million from 31 projects.
Parallel Sessions and Discussants
To ensure that the authors of all accepted papers receive individual feedback, we will assign a discussant to each paper. We believe that this feedback is an essential element of the conference experience and are committed to promoting authors’ research development by giving them valuable insights that will help them to elevate their research to the next level. Presenting authors should therefore be prepared to act as discussants for other authors’ papers.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Contributions from all areas of finance are invited for the conference.
The conference offers an interdisciplinary forum in which to gain feedback on the progress of timely working papers. We welcome scholarly research spanning the Finance spectrum, emphasising sustainable financial practices, policies, and regulations that address the challenges posed by social, economic, and environmental concerns. We invite you to share with international delegates your research and ideas on how our discipline can contribute to sustainability in Finance in the 21st Century. Authors are encouraged to submit original papers focusing on research questions with consequences for diverse stakeholders and organisations in the public and private sectors, in both developed and developing countries.
We welcome the submission of research including, but not limited to:
- Sustainable finance and investment
- Green finance: sources and instruments
- Transition finance
- Ethical finance
- Supply chain finance
- RegTech—New regulatory challenges
- Organisational and governance responses to climate risk
- Fintech, digital finance innovations, and block chain
- ChatGPT in finance
- Education in sustainable finance
- Energy transition: Carbon emission peak and carbon neutrality
- Biodiversity
This year, the BAFA Finance Conference explores these topics through a keynote address, a panel discussion and paper presentations.
Paper Submission
Deadline: 15 August 2024
Submissions can range from an extended abstract and early working drafts to fully developed papers. Please submit your work via email to Dr Xianmin Liu (xianmin.liu@greenwich.ac.uk).
Please include i) BAFAFinance2024, ii) your surname, and iii) your institution name in the subject line of the email and also your submitted file. For example: the file name should adopt the following construction: BAFAFinance2024-Smith-UoL.
Papers will be selected via a double-blind review process, undertaken by the organising committee. Authors are encouraged to submit their work as soon as it is ready, as the Committee evaluates submissions as papers are received on a rolling basis, returning their decisions within one week of your submission.
Conference Fees
Opens: 20 June 2024
Closes: 30 August 2024
Fees cover conference registration and catering during the day. Registration is via your BAFA membership account.
Conference Fees for Presenters
Academics and Practitioners: £80
PhD students: £50
Hybrid virtual attendance: £20
Conference Fees for Non-presenters
Academics and Practitioners: £40
PhD students: £25
Hybrid virtual attendance: Free
Gala dinner: £50
The gala dinner will be held in the famous Trafalgar Tavern (UNESCO, Grade II Listing Building) at the end of the conference to facilitate networking.
Please kindly note that an administrative fee (equivalent to half the conference fee) will be charged to all registered attendees who cancel their registration before August 30 2024. No refunds will be available on or after that date.
To register as a member of BAFA, please visit the link: https://www.bafa.ac.uk/membership/
PhD Grants
Deadline for grant applications: 15 August 2024 (BST).
The amount of the grant is £50 (in-person attendance only).
The organising committee will award a limited number of registration grants to help PhD students attend the conference. The application should be sent together with your paper submission.
Applicants should:
- be full-time PhD students in finance, financial economics, or a related field;
- have completed two years of their doctoral studies;
- provide their CV, the name of their supervisor, and a statement from their supervisor confirming that the applicant is enrolled onto a PhD programme.
Preference will be given to job market candidates in the upcoming academic year (2024-2025).
Key Dates
Accommodation & Travel
Venue: QA280, Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS.
University car park passes will be available. Getting to Greenwich Campus at the University of Greenwich, please follow this link: https://www.gre.ac.uk/about-us/travel/greenwich.
Greenwich Campus Virtual Tour is available via this link.
Early Registration and Social Activites
Delegates registering on the night before the conference will be offered a two-hour guided tour of historic Greenwich.
Early registration time: 4.00 PM (BST), 5 September 2024.
Early registration location: Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus.
- Tours will include visits to: the Old Royal Naval College, the National Maritime Museum, the Cutty Sark, Greenwich Market, Greenwich Park, the Royal Observatory, and Sunset.
- Pick up Location: Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus.
- Pick up Time: 17.00 (BST)
- Duration: 17.00– 19.00 (BST)
Supporting journals
- British Accounting Review (CABS: 3; Impact factor 2023: 5.1; SJR: Q1)
- International Journal of Finance & Economics (CABS: 3; Impact factor 2022: 2.9; SJR: Q2)
The conference organisers, in liaison with the editors will invite the authors of selected high-quality papers that fall within the general remit of the Journals, to submit their manuscript to the Journals. Selected papers will undergo the reviewing process on a fast-track basis.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful for the sponsorship offered by the British Accounting and Finance Association and the University of Greenwich.
Further Information
For general enquiries, please contact CF&AP SIG Chair: Professor Jia Liu via cfap-sig@bafa.ac.uk.
