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 first edition of the CCA-ESCP Workshop on Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance, to be held on June 5th and 6th, 2025, 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.

We invite original research that addresses current questions and brings innovative ideas in the following areas, though we also welcome submissions on related topics: 

Research areas: 

  • The evolution of financial institutions and its implications for corporate finance.
  • Technological disruptions (e.g., fintech, blockchain, AI) and their implications for financial intermediation and corporate financial strategies.
  • The impact of regulatory changes on financial institutions, capital markets, and corporate finance.
  • Corporate governance and its effects on financing and investments decisions.
  • Corporate responses to climate risk.
  • Diversity, equity and inclusion policies in financial and non-financial corporations.
  • Climate finance and the role of financial institutions in sustainable investment.
  • The resilience and funding of complex structures such as business groups, private equity, securitization, bank holding companies, and multinationals.
  • Risk management, capital structure, and bank and corporate resilience during periods of economic distress.
  • The interplay between monetary policy, financial institutions, and corporate financial structures.
  • Policy interventions and their impact on financial market stability and corporate access to finance.

Submission Guidelines: 

Authors are invited to submit a full paper in PDF format via email at ccaescpworkshop@escp.eu.

There are no submission fees:

  • Submission Deadline: February 15th, 2025
  • Notification of Acceptance: March 7th, 2025

Each accepted paper will be discussed by an expert in the field.

SUBMIT YOUR PAPER

Registration and Location: 

The workshop will run from June 5th, 2025, early afternoon to June 6th, 2025, 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. Participantsare expected to cover their travel and accommodation expenses.

Registration details will be emailed upon paper acceptance and also shared on this webpage.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 

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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CONTACT INFORMATION

For inquires, please contact us at ccaescpworkshop@escp.eu

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Santiago Barraza (ESCP), Silvia Dalla Fontana (ESCP), Riccardo Calcagno (Politecnico di Torino and CeRP (CCA))Alberta Di Giuli (ESCP, ECGI), Roberto Marfè (CCA, UniTo), 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!
 

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Date

Start date: 05/06/2025

Start time: 9:00 AM

End date: 06/06/2025

End time: 4:00 PM