Previous CERF Symposia

Held 15-16 September 2026.

Programme can be viewed at this link

Photography from the symposium can be viewed at this li

Programme Committee:

Adelina Barbalau (University of Alberta), Shiqi Chen (University of Lancaster), Jason Donaldson (London School of Economics)

Simon Gervais (Duke University), Jing Huang (Texas A&M University), Konstantin Milbradt (Northwestern University), Markus Parlasca (WU Vienna), Cecilia Parlatore (New York University), Alessio Piccolo (Indiana University), Adriano Rampini (Duke University), Magdalena Rola-Janicka (Imperial), Jan Starmans (Stockholm School of Economics), Lucy White (Boston University), Yue Yuan (University College London), Adam Zawadowski (Central European University), Hongda Zhong (University of Texas at Dallas), Pavel Zryumov (Rochester University).

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Vincent Maurin (HEC Paris). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 26 -27 September 2025.

Full Information and Programme

The Full Programme can be viewed from the Symposium's Page here.

Programme Committee:

Samuel Antill (Harvard Business School), Vladimir Asriyan (CREI, ICREA, Barcelona School of Economics), Snehal Banerjee (University of Michigan), Philip Bond (University of Foster), Shiqi Chen (University of Lancaster), Jason Donaldson (CEPR, Finance Theory Group, Macro Finance Society, Labor and Finance Group, Systemic Risk Centre), Lorenzo Garlappi (University of British Columbia), Alex Guembel (Toulouse School of Economics), Deeksha Gupta (John Hopkins Carey Business School), Yunzhi Hu (University of North Carolina), Alexandr Kopytov (University of Rochester), Pierre Liang (Carnegie Mellon University), Richmond Mathews (University of Maryland), Marcus Opp (Stockholm School of Economics), Jan Starmans (Stockhold School of Economics), Victoria Vanasco (CREI, UPF, BSE), Vladimir Vladimirov (University of Amsterdam), Jeffrey Zwiebel (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Joel Shapiro (University of Oxford). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 13th - 14th September 2024.

Full Information and Programme

The Full Programme can be viewed from the Symposium's Page here.

Programme Committee:

Brianna Chang (Wisconsin School of Business), Giles Chemla (Imperial College London), Joanne Chen (Boston University, Contract Corporate), Shiqi Chen (University of Lancaster), Jesse Davis (University of North Carolina), Brett Green (Washington University in St Louis), Chong Huang (University of California), Jing Huang (Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University), Roman Inderst (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Ron Kaniel (University of Rochester), Konstantin Milbradt (Northwest University), Martin Oehmke (London School of Economics and Political Science), Uday Ranjan (University of Michigan), Linda Schilling  (Washington University of St Louis), Giulio Trigilia (University of Rochester), Paul Voss (HEC Paris), Andrew Winton (University of Minnesota), Yufeng Wu (Ohio State University), David Xu (Southern Methodist University), Liyan Yang (University of Toronto). 

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Hongda Zhong (University of Texas). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 8th - 9th September 2023.

Keynote Speaker: Nobel Prize Laureate, Professor Philip H. Dybvig. 

The Programme 

Programme Committee:

Catherine Casamatta (Toulouse School of Economics), Shiqi Chen (University of Lancaster), Jean-Edouard Colliard (HEC Paris), Jason Donaldson (Washington University in St Louis), James Dow (London Business School), Chiara Fumagalli (Bocconi), Ron Giammarino (University of British Columbia), Vincent Glode (University of Pennsylvania), Alex Guembel (Toulouse School of Economics), Hendrik Hakenes (University of Bonn), Xinyu Hou (University of Cambridge), Ye Li (University of Washington), Gyöngyi Lóránth (University of Vienna), Frederic Malherbe (University College London), Iván Marinovic (Stanford Graduate School of Business), Vincent Maurin (Stockholm School of Economics), Simon Mayer (HEC Paris), Marcus Opp (Stockholm School of Economics), Dmitry Orlov (Wisconsin School of Business), Martin Szydlowski (University of Minnesota), Lucy White (Boston University). 

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and John Thanassoulis (University of Warwick). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 16th - 17th September 2022.

Keynote Speaker: Josef Zechner (University of Economics and Business).

The Programme 

Programme Committee:

Vladimir Asriyan (Barcelona School of Economics and CEPR), Ilona Babenko (Arizona State University), Ana Babus (Washington University in St. Louis), Mike Burkart (London School of Economics), Shiqi Chen (University of Cambridge), Barney Hartman-Glaser (UCLA), Kinda Hachem (UVA), Frederic Malherbe (University College London), Ernst Maug (University of Mannheim), Alejandro Rivera (University of Texas at Dallas), Anatoli Segura Velez (Bank of Italy), Günter Strobl (University of Vienna), Anton Tsoy (University of Toronto), Yue Yuan (Tsinghua University), Jing Zeng (University of Bonn), Yao Zeng (University of Pennsylvania), Pavel Zryumov (University of Rochester).

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Victoria Vanasco (Barcelona School of Econmics). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 10th - 11th September 2021. The Coronavirus Pandemic caused this event to be remote.

Keynote Speaker: Ron Giammarino (University of British Columbia).

The Programme 

Programme Committee:

Shiqi Chen (University of Cambridge), Shaun Davies (University of Colorado at Boulder), Eduardo Dávila (Yale University), Sebastian Gryglewicz (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Ilan Guttman (New York University), Ben Hébert (Stanford University), Semyon Malamud (EPFL), Christian Oppb (University of Rochester), Cecilia Parlatore (New York University), Giorgia Piacentino (Columbia University), Martin Szydlowski (University of Minnesota), Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (University of Mannheim), Neng Wang (Columbia University), Ming Yang (Duke University). 

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Simon Gervais (Duke University). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 11th - 12th September 2020. The Coronavirus Pandemic caused this event to be remote.

Keynote Speaker: Steward Myers (MIT Sloan).

The Programme 

Programme Committee:

Ulf Axelson (LSE), Bradyn Breon-Drish (UC San Diego, Rady School of Management), Jason Donaldson (Washington University in St.Louis, Olin Business School), Adelphe Ekponon (University of Cambridge, Cambridge Judge Business School), Pingyang Gao (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), Vincent Glode (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Barney Hartman-Glaser (UCLA, Anderson School of Management), Ali Lazrak (UBC, Sauder School of Business), Doron Levit (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Andrey Malenko (Boston College, Carrol School of Management), Vincent Maurin (Stockholm School of Economics), Dmitry Orlov (Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Uday Rajan (University of Michigan), Francesco Sangiorgi (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management), Victoria Vanasco (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics), Luis Felipe Varas Greene (DUKE, Fuqua School of Management), Ernst Ludwig von Thadden (University of Mannheim). 

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Simon Gervais (Duke University). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 13th - 14th September 2019.

Keynote Speaker: Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania).

The Programme 

Programme Committee:

Mike Burkart (London School of Economics), Sivan Frenkel (Coller School of Management), Simon Gervais (Duke’s Fuqua School of Business), Will Cong (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), John Kuong (INSEAD), Gyöngyi Lóránth (University of Vienna), Andrey Malenko (MIT Sloan), Marcus Opp (Stockholm School of Economics), Christine Parlour (Berkeley Haas), Giorgia Piacentino (Columbia Business School), Yuri Tserlukevich (Arizona State University), Edward D. Van Wesep (Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder), Victoria Vanasco (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)   Felipe Varas Greene (Duke’s Fugua School of Business), Vladimir Vladimirov (University of Amsterdam), Hui (Frank) Xu (University of Cambridge).

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Denis Gromb (HEC Paris). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 14th - 15th September 2018.

Keynote Speaker: Peter DeMarzo (Stanford University).

The Programme 

Programme Committee:

Jason Donaldson (Washington University in St Louis), Paolo Fulghieri (UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School), Simon Gervais (Duke University), Charles Kahn (Illinois Gies College of Business), Igor Makarov (London School of Economics), Martin Oehmke (London School of Economics), Grzegorz Pawlina (Lancaster University), Giorgia Piacentino (Columbia Business School), Uday Rajan (University of Michigan), Joel Shapiro (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Martin Szydlowski (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota), John Thanassoulis (Warwick Business School), Alex Tse (CERF, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge), Anton Tsoy (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance), Edward D Van Wesep (University of Colorado), Chaojun Wang (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania), Pavel Zryumov (Simon Business School, University of Rochester). 

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Doron Levit (University of Pennsylvania). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 15th - 16th September 2017.

Keynote Speaker: Jean-Charles Rochet (Swiss Finance Institute at Zurich and Geneva)

The Programme 

Programme Committee:

Ilona Babenko (Arizona State University), Jean-Paul Décamps (University of Toulouse), Paolo Fulghieri (University of North Carolina), Pingyang Gao (University of Chicago), Simon Gervais (Duke University), Eitan Goldman (Indiana University), Alexander Gorbenko (University of Southern California), Alexander Guembel (Toulouse School of Economics),  Ilan Guttman (New York University), Nadya Malenko (Boston College), Qiusha Peng (University of Cambridge), Uday Rajan (University of Michigan), Merih Sevilir (Indiana University), Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business).

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Günter Strobl (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 16th - 17th September 2016.

Keynote Speaker: Anjan Thakor (Washington University in St. Louis)

The Programme 

Programme Committee:

Snehal Banerjee (University of California at San Diego), Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics), James Dow (London Business School), Paolo Fulghieri (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Andrea Gamba (Warwick University), Sebastian Gryglewicz (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Ilan Guttman (New York University), Dirk Hackbarth (Boston University), Volker Laux (University of Texas at Austin), Doron Levit (University of Pennsylvania),  Richard Lowery (University of Texas at Austin), Qiusha Peng (University of Cambridge), Paul Povel (University of Houston), Edward Van Wesep (University of Colorado Boulder). 

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Nadya Malenko (Boston College). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 18th - 19th September 2015.

Keynote Speaker: Bruno Biais (University of Toulouse)

The Programme 

Programme Committee:

Mike Burkart (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR), Alex Edmans (London Business School), Christopher Hennessy (London Business School and CEPR), Andrey Malenko (MIT Sloan School of Management), Pierre Mella-Barral (EDHEC Business School), Erwan Morellec  (Swiss Finance Institute and CEPR), Grzegorz Pawlina (Lancaster University Management School), Joel Shapiro (Saïd Business School and CEPR), Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (UCLA), Neng Wang (Columbia Business School).

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economcis). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.

Held 19th - 20th September 2014.

Keynote Speaker: Franklin Allen (Imperial College Business School)

The Programme 

Please Note: No programme committee history could be found for this year's Symposium.

Organised by Bart Lambrecht (Director of CERF) and Grzegorz Pawlina (Lancaster University). This event was in collaboration with CEPR.