Call for Papers

They are inviting you to submit your research in all areas related to behavioral and social finance/economics to the 18th International Conference of the BFWG to be held on Jun. 4-6 in London. As in previous years, the Conference promises to bring together a vibrant community of academics and practitioners in finance, economics, psychology, and decision sciences, featuring regular and poster presentations, academic and practitioner keynotes, and research awards.

Conference Organizers

• Prof. Arman Eshraghi
  • Cardiff Business School
  • Cardiff University
• Prof. Gulnur Muradoglu
  • College of Business and Management
  • University of Illinois Springfield
• Prof. Ana-Maria Fuertes
  • Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School
  • City, University of London

Topics

The Behavioral Finance Working Group annual conference is a three-day international meeting organized by the BFWG. It examines a wide range of behavioral finance topics within financial decision-making, investments, financial markets, corporate finance, fund management, banking, asset pricing, forecasting, experimental finance, and sociology of finance.

This year’s theme of the conference is financial behaviour in commodity and energy markets.

The conference also features support for selected PhD students by ICAEW Charitable Trusts and additional support by Elsevier.

Our previous conferences have featured sessions on the following topics:

• Banking and Regulation
• Behavioural Asset Pricing
• Behavioural Corporate Finance
• Biases and Heuristics
• Pandemics
• Cryptocurrencies
• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
• Financial Analysts
• Financial Behaviour
• Financial Markets
• Investment Decisions
• Managerial Biases
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Political Environment
• Retail Investors
• Sentiment
• Climate Finance
• CSR and ESG

Affiliated Journals

Accepted papers may be invited for submission to the following journals:

• International Review of Financial Analysis
• Global Finance Journal
• International Review of Economics and Finance
• Finance Research Letters
• Review of Behavioural Finance
• Qualitative Research in Financial Markets

Submission Deadline: 21 February 2024

To make a submission, you can simply email a PDF copy of your paper to info@behaviouralfinance.org.

For more information, please visit www.behaviouralfinance.org.

Early submissions are encouraged.

Distinguished Keynote Speakers

• Prof. Tarun Ramadorai
  • Imperial College London
  • Executive Editor, Review of Financial Studies
  • Research Fellow, CEPR
  • Director, European Finance Association
• Prof. Anna Pavlova
  • London Business School
  • Editor, Review of Financial Studies
  • Research Fellow, CEPR
  • Former Director, American Finance Association
• Hilary Till
  • Principal, Premia Research
  • Managing Editor, Commodity Insights Digest
  • Former Head of Portfolio Analysis, BNY Mellon
  • Member, Bretton Woods Committee