Here you can find a list of tracks and topics. Please note that when submitting, you can choose one track only but multiple topics.

Tracks

• Asset Pricing – Empirical (APE)
• Asset Pricing – Theory (APT)
• Behavioral Finance (BF)
• Corporate Finance and Governance – Empirical (CFGE)
• Corporate Finance and Governance – Theory (CFGT)
• Financial Intermediation and Institutions – Empirical (FIIE)
• Financial Intermediation and Institutions – Theory (FIIT)
• Household Finance (HH)
• International Finance (IF)
• Market Microstructure (MM)

Asset Pricing – Empirical

• APE-01 – Equities
• APE-02 – Stock return anomalies
• APE-03 – Return predictability
• APE-04 – Factor models
• APE-05 – Tests of asset pricing models
• APE-06 – Market efficiency
• APE-07 – Portfolio choice, asset allocation
• APE-08 – Monetary and macroeconomic effects
• APE-09 – Institutional effects
• APE-10 – Financial crisis
• APE-11 – Government policy and regulation
• APE-12 – Liquidity, frictions, limits to arbitrage
• APE-13 – Learning, information processing and transmission
• APE-14 – Volatility, risk management
• APE-15 – Fixed income securities
• APE-16 – Credit risk
• APE-17 – Commodities
• APE-18 – Derivatives, continuous-time models
• APE-19 – Alternative asset classes
• APE-20 – Real estate markets
• APE-21 – Financial econometrics

Asset Pricing – Theory

• APT-01 – Equities
• APT-02 – Market efficiency
• APT-03 – Portfolio choice, asset allocation
• APT-04 – Asset returns in macroeconomic models
• APT-05 – Government policy and regulation
• APT-06 – Monetary and macroeconomic effects
• APT-07 – Liquidity, frictions, limits to arbitrage
• APT-08 – Learning, information processing and transmission
• APT-09 – Volatility, risk management
• APT-10 – Fixed income securities
• APT-11 – Credit risk
• APT-12 – Commodities
• APT-13 – Derivatives, continuous-time models
• APT-14 – Alternative asset classes

Behavioral Finance

• BF-01 – Empirical
• BF-02 – Theoretical
• BF-03 – Asset pricing
• BF-04 – Corporate finance
• BF-05 – Financial intermediation
• BF-06 – Lab experiments and neuro finance
• BF-07 – Individual traders, trading strategies
• BF-08 – Households
• BF-09 – Field experiments

Corporate Finance and Governance – Empirical

• CFGE-01 – Capital structure, financial policy
• CFGE-02 – Security design
• CFGE-03 – Payout policy
• CFGE-04 – Event studies
• CFGE-05 – Product markets
• CFGE-06 – Effects of regulation and monetary policy
• CFGE-07 – Financial risk and risk management
• CFGE-08 – Investment policy
• CFGE-09 – Cost of capital, valuation
• CFGE-10 – Financial constraints
• CFGE-11 – Taxes
• CFGE-12 – Innovation
• CFGE-13 – Security issues
• CFGE-14 – Mergers & acquisitions, corporate control
• CFGE-15 – Restructuring, organizational structure
• CFGE-16 – CEOs, boards
• CFGE-17 – Executive compensation
• CFGE-18 – Finance and labor
• CFGE-19 – Ownership structure and investor activism
• CFGE-20 – Financial distress, bankruptcy, liquidation
• CFGE-21 – Contracting mechanisms
• CFGE-22 – Corporate disclosure and accounting
• CFGE-23 – Politics
• CFGE-24 – Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• CFGE-25 – Corporate culture, gender and diversity
• CFGE-26 – Entrepreneurial finance
• CFGE-27 – Climate finance

Corporate Finance and Governance – Theory

• CFGT-01 – Mergers & acquisitions, corporate control
• CFGT-02 – Capital structure, financial policy
• CFGT-03 – Ownership structure
• CFGT-04 – Contract and game theoretical models
• CFGT-05 – Dynamic models
• CFGT-06 – Corporate disclosure, accounting, law, regulation
• CFGT-07 – Financial risk and risk management
• CFGT-08 – Investment policy, capital budgeting, cost of capital
• CFGT-09 – Security issues
• CFGT-10 – CEOs, boards, executive compensation

Financial Intermediation and Institutions – Empirical

• FIIE-01 – Banks and depository institutions
• FIIE-02 – Bank lending
• FIIE-03 – Central banks
• FIIE-04 – Ratings and rating agencies
• FIIE-05 – Financial stability and systemic risk
• FIIE-06 – Government policy, bank regulation and supervision
• FIIE-07 – Monetary and central bank effects
• FIIE-08 – Bank risk management
• FIIE-09- Collateral
• FIIE-10 – Investment banking, venture capital, private equity, brokerage
• FIIE-11 – Financial instruments
• FIIE-12 – Analysts
• FIIE-13 – Asset management, mutual funds
• FIIE-14 – Hedge funds
• FIIE-15 – Pension funds, endowment funds
• FIIE-16 – Insurance
• FIIE-17 – Financial history
• FIIE-18 – Financial technology (FinTech)
• FIIE-19 – Financial networks
• FIIE-20 – Crowdfunding
• FIIE-21 – Interbank, money and repo markets
• FIIE-22 – Real estate markets

Financial Intermediation and Institutions – Theory

• FIIT-01 – Contract and game theoretical models
• FIIT-02 – Dynamic models
• FIIT-03 – Banks and depository institutions
• FIIT-04 – Central banks
• FIIT-05 – Financial stability and systemic risk
• FIIT-06 – Government policy, bank regulation, and supervision
• FIIT-07 – Collateral
• FIIT-08 – Investment banking, venture capital, private equity, brokerage, analysts
• FIIT-09 – Financial instruments
• FIIT-10 – Market design
• FIIT-11 – Asset management, mutual funds
• FIIT-12 – Financial technology (FinTech)
• FIIT-13 – Financial networks
• FIIT-14 – Crowdfunding

Household Finance

• HH-1 – Housing and mortgage credit
• HH-2 – Consumer credit and student loans
• HH-3 – Financial literacy
• HH-4 – Investments and portfolio choice
• HH-5 – Savings and retirement
• HH-6 – Finance and labor

International Finance

• IF-01 – Emerging markets
• IF-02 – Exchange rates
• IF-03 – International asset pricing
• IF-04 – International corporate finance
• IF-05 – International institutions, intermediation
• IF-06 – International capital flows
• IF-07 – International asset allocation

Market Microstructure

• MM-01 – Market microstructure, theoretical
• MM-02 – Market microstructure, empirical
• MM-03 – High-frequency trading
• MM-04 – Liquidity, frictions, limits to arbitrage
• MM-05 – Market structure and design issues
• MM-06 – Price formation and price discovery
• MM-07 – Information and disclosure
• MM-08 – Cryptocurrencies
• MM-09 – Artificial intelligence and machine learning