2025 Rising Scholars Conference - Call for Papers

Conference on the Future of Financial Stability

The Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Review of Corporate Finance Studies (RCFS) invite high-quality theoretical and empirical paper submissions from young scholars on the future of financial stability in the context of new challenges arising from developments in Fintech and shadow banking, as well as its implications for financial inclusion.

Consistent with the objective of the conference to showcase the work of rising scholars, all authors of submitted papers must have received their recent PhD within the last six years to be considered for inclusion in the conference’s program.

Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Interactions between monetary policy, financial conditions, and fragilities in financial markets;
• Connections between banks and non-banks (i.e., shadow banks, insurance companies, funds);
• Propagation of contagion from non-banks to the banking system;
• Risk-taking in the non-banking and fintech sectors;
• Climate and geopolitical risks and implications for market stability;
• BigTech finance, increased market concentration and financial stability implications;
• Fintech, financial inclusion and financial stability;
• Role of supervision, regulation, and transparency; and
• Financial stability and implications for financial inclusion.

The conference aims to bring together rising scholars from finance and economics to discuss these issues from various points of view. Each paper will be assigned to a discussant. The symposium begins with a dinner on Thursday evening, May 1, 2025.

Domestic travel expenses (economy class) will be refunded for authors whose papers are accepted. Accommodation will be paid for up to two nights.

Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers via email in PDF format, including abstract, all authors’ affiliations, and contact information, by Friday, January 10, 2025. The submitted paper’s filename should include all authors’ last names separated by underscores (e.g., lee_andrews.pdf). Please indicate whether you choose to have your paper considered for the dual submission option at the Review of Corporate Finance Studies.

Dual Submission Option:

In the submission, authors should indicate if they wish their paper to be considered (at no extra fee) for publication by the Review of Corporate Finance Studies under the Dual Submission Program. This is a “no-fault” submission option: if the RCFS reviews the paper and rejects it, the authors may submit it to any SFS journal at a later date as if it was never submitted.

Conference Scientific Committee:

Gara Afonso (FRBNY)

Agostino Capponi (Columbia)

Matt Darst (FRB)

Eduardo Davila (Yale)

Wenxin Du (Columbia Business School)

Thomas Eisenbach (FRBNY)

Andrew Ellul (Indiana)

Isil Erel (Ohio State)

Mark Flannery (UF)

Paul Glasserman (Columbia)

Bernard Herskovic (UCLA)

Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School)

Chotibhak Jotikasthira (SMU)

Dasol Kim (OFR)

Yiming Ma (Columbia Business School)

Mark Paddrik (OFR)

Cecilia Parlatore (NYU Stern)

Loriana Pelizzon (SAFE Goethe University)

Gregory Phelan (Williams College)

Ishita Sen (Harvard Business School)

Emil Siriwardane (Harvard)

Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon)

Nagpurnanand Prabhala (Johns Hopkins)

Uday Rajan (Michigan)

David Rappoport (FRB)

Clara Vega (FRB)

Sumudu Watugala (Indiana)

Jun Yang (Notre Dame)

Yao Zeng (Wharton)

Alex Zhou (SMU)