CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop
Date: 10th June 2025
Submission deadline: Friday 28th February 2025
Venue: Bayes Business School, City, University of London
Organisers: Simeon Djankov (FMG/LSE), Orkun Saka (City), Sujata Visaria (City) & Paolo Volpin (City)
Bayes Business School and Department of Economics at City, University of London as well as Financial Markets Group at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) will jointly organise the third workshop on the theme of political finance. The workshop will take place in person at Bayes Business School on 10th June 2025. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. Papers from the past editions have ended up being published in top journals such as Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics.
There will be a dedicated discussant for each paper, as well as open floor discussion. Papers are invited on the following (non-exclusive) list of topics:
- Gender/race/minority issues in finance
- Revolving doors between financial institutions and government
- Corruption and lobbying in finance
- Media and finance
- Interaction of financial cycles with politics
- Financial crises, political institutions and populism
- Political/policy uncertainty and corporate risk-taking
The workshop features a keynote speech by Professor Anat Admati (Stanford).
There is no registration fee. To submit a paper (full papers accepted only – preliminary versions also welcome), please upload it by clicking the "Submit paper" button on this page. The authors will be notified about the acceptance of papers by 21st March 2025.
The conference webpage is available here.
Scientific Committee:
Thorsten Beck (EUI)
Matilde Bombardini (Berkeley)
Barbara Casu (City)
Ralph De Haas (EBRD)
Serdar Dinc (Rutgers)
Simeon Djankov (LSE)
Barry Eichengreen (Berkeley)
Mara Faccio (Purdue)
Sergei Guriev (LBS)
Rainer Haselmann (Goethe)
Vasso Ioannidou (City)
Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard)
Mancu Luo (City)
Daniel Paravisini (LSE)
Karthik Ramanna (Oxford)
Orkun Saka (City)
Emil Verner (MIT)
Vikrant Vig (Stanford)
Sujata Visaria (City)
Paolo Volpin (City)
