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.

2024 FOM Conference

Following 11 successful FOM conferences, we will hold our 12th research workshop in 2024 Fall.

Dates: October 10-11, 2024. The conference program will begin with a lunch on Thursday, October 10th, and end in the late afternoon, October 11th.   

Host: Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

Call for papers 2024: Click here for this year's call for papers.

Our research committee includes Heitor Almeida (Illinois), Scott Baker (Northwestern), Murillo Campello (Cornell), Tony Cookson (Colorado), Espen Eckbo (Dartmouth), Michael Ewens (Columbia), Murray Frank (Minnesota), Laurent Fresard (SFI Lugano), Franz Hinzen (Dartmouth), Jerry Hoberg (USC), 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), Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth), NR Prabhala (Johns Hopkins), Giorgo Sertsios (Wisconsin Milwaukee), Morten Sorensen (Dartmouth),  Kelly Shue (Yale), Chad Syverson (Chicago), Shawn Thomas (Pittsburgh), and Eric Zwick (Chicago).   

This year's keynote speaker will be announced in the summer. Past keynote speakers have included Oliver Hart (2014) and Bengt Holmström (2015), who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in economics.   

Past Conference Programs

Click here to view previous conference agendas and details.