FINANCE, ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS
FINANCE, ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS
FOM RESEARCH GROUP
FOM RESEARCH GROUP
The Finance, Organizations, and Markets (FOM) Research group advances interdisciplinary research in finance and the organization of firms and markets, including financial, product, and labor markets.
Broad topics include internal firm organization (theory of the firm), mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity, financing policy and industrial organization of markets, and linkages between firms' financial, organizational, and operating strategies. Both theoretical and empirical work are encouraged.
Scholars include individuals who study internal firm organization, corporate strategy, corporate finance, industrial organization of markets and private and public equity. Interaction between scholars continues throughout the year and culminates in an annual conference held at rotating universities. Membership and meeting attendance are limited to increase the interaction of attendees in a seminar-style setting.
Following 12 successful FOM conferences, we will hold our 13th research workshop in 2025 Fall.
Dates: October 24-25, 2025. The conference program will begin with breakfast on Friday, October 24th, and end with boxed lunch Saturday, October 25th.
Host: Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Keynote Speaker 2025: René Stulz, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University
Paper Submissions Closed: Deadline was July 1
Registration: Link will be live by late August (by invitation, no registration fee).
Hotel: The conference has a discounted group rate at the USC Hotel ($254.47 incl. taxes) that you can reserve here
Our research committee includes Heitor Almeida (Illinois), Tania Babina (Maryland), Scott Baker (Northwestern), Murillo Campello (Florida), Tony Cookson (Colorado), Espen Eckbo (Dartmouth), Michael Ewens (Columbia), Murray Frank (Minnesota), Laurent Fresard (SFI Lugano), Franz Hinzen (Dartmouth), Jerry Hoberg (USC), Sabrina Howell (NYU), Naveen Khanna (Michigan State), Arthur Korteweg (USC), Katharina Lewellen (Dartmouth), Evgeny Lyandres (Tel Aviv University), Song Ma (Yale), Vojislav Maksimovic (Maryland), Nadya Malenko (Michigan), David Matsa (Northwestern), John Matsusaka (USC), Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth), NR Prabhala (Johns Hopkins), Lukas Schmid (USC), Giorgo Sertsios (Wisconsin Milwaukee), Morten Sorensen (Dartmouth), Kelly Shue (Yale), Chad Syverson (Chicago), Shawn Thomas (Pittsburgh), and Eric Zwick (Chicago).
The FOM conference has a long history of great papers and intellectual debates. Past keynote speakers have included Oliver Hart (2014) and Bengt Holmström (2015), who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in economics.
Click here to view previous conference agendas and details.