CCA-ESCP Workshop on Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance
Collegio Carlo Alberto and ESCP Business School
Collegio Carlo Alberto and ESCP Business School are pleased to announce the second edition of the CCA-ESCP Workshop on Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance, to be held on June 4th and 5th, 2026, at the Turin Campus of ESCP Business School.
The workshop will focus on contemporary issues relating to financial institutions and corporate finance, promoting dialogue between academics and policymakers to address current challenges and opportunities in the field.
Join the Event:
***Registrations for the 2026 edition will open soon***
Next June, join us for the CCA-ESCP Workshop on Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance at ESCP Business School Turin Campus in Via Andrea Doria, 27.
Registrations for the workshop are free and open to academics, policymakers, and practitioners to explore key challenges and innovations in financial institutions and corporate finance.
Engage with leading experts and participate in discussions on topics such as fintech, corporate governance, climate finance, and regulatory changes.
Registration and Location:
The workshop will run from June 4th, 2026, early afternoon to June 5th, 2026, early afternoon. Lunches, coffee breaks, and a conference dinner on Thursday will be offered to presenters and discussants.
The workshop is open free of charge to academics, policymakers, and practitioners, and will take place at our brand-new campus of ESCP in downtown Turin. Participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation expenses.
Research areas:
Engage in discussions led by experts on various topics:
- Interactions among banks, non-bank intermediaries, and capital markets.
- Effects of technological innovation — including digital banking, fintech, big data, and AI.
- Consequences of bank regulatory and supervisory reforms.
- Determinants of financial fragility, liquidity transformation, and systemic risk.
- Climate, sustainability, and transition finance.
- Corporate investment, capital structure, and liquidity management.
- Governance, ownership structures, incentives, and diversity.
- Monetary-policy transmission through banks and non-banks.
- Household and entrepreneurial finance.
- Impacts of geopolitical, political-economy, and policy shocks in finance.
Organising Committee
- Santiago BARRAZA (ESCP)
- Riccardo CALCAGNO (Politecnico di Torino and CeRP (CCA))
- Silvia DALLA FONTANA (ESCP)
- Alberta DI GIULI (ESCP, ECGI)
- Roberto MARFÉ (CCA, UniTo)
- Elisa LUCIANO (UniTo, CCA)
- Francesco MAZZOLA (ESCP)
- Giovanna NICODANO (UniTo, CCA,CEPR; ECGI)
- Tina ORESKI (ESCP)
We look forward to receiving your contributions and engaging in a thought-provoking exchange of ideas at the workshop!
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Zacharias Sautner is Professor of Sustainable Finance at University of Zurich, where heads the Initiative in Sustainable Finance, and Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute. He works on sustainable finance, ESG, climate finance, and biodiversity finance. His research was published in top journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, or Journal of Financial Economics. He is an Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and an advisor of asset management companies on sustainable finance issues. He serves as a Director of the European Finance Association and on the judging panel for the PRI Awards. He was a Regular Research Visitor at the ECB, and a visiting professor at The University of Hong Kong, University of California San Diego, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, among others. Before moving to Zurich, he was a Professor at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, where he headed the Department of Finance for several years.
More speakers will be announced soon
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Agenda:
Day 1 - 4th June: TBD
Day 2 - 5th June: TBD
For inquires, please contact us at ccaescpworkshop@escp.eu
Past Editions
AGENDA:
The 2026 agenda will be published soon, in the meantime, take a look at the 2025 edition:
Day 1 - 5th June: Corporate Finance
- 12.30 -13.30: Registration and Lunch
- 13.30 - 13.50: Welcome Speech
- 13.50 - 15.10:
- Corporate Debt Structure over the Global Credit Cycle:
Leonardo Elias (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Discussant: Stefano Colonnello (University of Venice Ca' Foscari)
- Political Bias in the Coverage of Corporate Misconduct: Effects on Employees and Managers:
Maria Teresa Marchica (Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Discussant: Mathis Moerke (University of St.Gallen) - 15.40 - 17.00:
- The Implications of Faster Lending: Loan Processing Time and Corporate Cash Holdings:
Hanwen Sun (University of Bath)
Discussant: Filippo De Marco (Bocconi University
- Producing AI Innovation and Its Value Implications:
Ambrus Kecskés (Schulich School of Business, York University)
Discussant: Silvia Dalla Fontana (ESCP Business School) - 17.30 - 18.30: Keynote - Claudia Custodio
- 20.00 - 22.30: Dinner - attendance by invitation
Day 2 - 6th June: Financial Institutions
- 9.00 - 10.20
- Monetary Policy and Corporate Investment: The Equity Financing Channel:
Mehdi Beyhaghi (Federal Reserve Board, Washington DC)
Discussant: Ekaterina Gavrilova (Nova School of Business and Economics)
- Sectoral Dynamics of Safe Assets in Advanced Economies:
Dmitry Kuvshinov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Economics, and CEPR)
Discussant: Philippe Bacchetta (University of Lausanne) - 10.50 - 12.10:
- Similar Investors:
Diane Pierret (University of Luxembourg and CEPR)
Discussant: Andrea Orame (Bank of Italy)
- Board Gender Quotas and Female Borrowing: Evidence from Loan-Level Data
Fabrizio Core (LUISS University)
Discussant: Paolo Mistrulli (Bank of Italy)
- 12.30 - 13.30: Keynote - Marco Pagano
- 13.30 - 15.15: Lunch & Farewell
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Speakers of the 2026 edition will be announced shortly, in the meantime, take a look at keynote speakers of the past edtion:
We are delighted to share that the workshop will feature a keynote speech by Prof. Claudia Custodio (Imperial College, CEPR, ECGI)and Prof. Marco Pagano ,(CSEF; EIEF; CEPR; ECGI).
Claudia Custodio is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College. She was awarded her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2010, where she was affiliated with the Financial Markets Group (FMG). She is a research associate at ECGI and a CEPR research fellow. After graduating Claudia spent time in the US working within the Department of Finance at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University before moving back to her native Lisbon to join NOVA school of Business and Economics. Claudia’s research focus is Corporate Finance and her work has been published 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 grant to study the impact of financial constraints of small firms on firm growth.
Marco Pagano is Professor of Finance at the University of Naples Federico II. He taught at Bocconi University and Imperial College, founded the Review of Finance together with Josef Zechner, chaired the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) and the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance ( EIEF), and directed the Center for Economics and Finance Studies (CSEF). He currently chairs the scientific committee of the Unicredit Foundation and the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI), and is a member of the Italian National Research Evaluation Committee (CNVR). His research is in the area of finance, mainly banking , corporate finance, market microstructure, financial regulation, macroprudential policy and, recently, the interactions between finance and the labor market. In 2012 he received the ERC Advanced Grant for a research project on “Finance and Labor”. His work has appeared on the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and RAND Journal of Economics, among others. He co-authored the book Market Liquidity: Theory, Evidence and Policy with Thierry Foucault and Ailsa Roëll, currently at its second edition.
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Start date: 04/06/2026
Start time: 9:00 AM
End date: 05/06/2025
End time: 4:00 PM