The Research Symposium on Finance and Economics (RSFE) 2025 organised by IFMR GSB (Graduate School of Business) (formerly IFMR) at Krea University aims to bring researchers, academicians, and practitioners in finance and economics across the globe to present, discuss and deliberate upon emerging issues in finance and economics in the contemporary world.
IFMR GSB has begun its new journey under the aegis of Krea University, pioneering Interwoven Learning to prepare scholars for the future, with a strong focus in research. This symposium is an important event in the academic calendar of IFMR GSB, Krea University. The three-day symposium will include keynote lectures, plenary sessions, and technical sessions among renowned academicians in the field of Finance and Economics.
The symposium solicits research papers both theoretical and empirical on various topics in the field of Finance and Economics.
Since its inception in 2019, the research symposium has experienced significant success in terms of participation of researchers from various reputed institutions both in India and in abroad. Every year the symposium had keynote lectures delivered by distinguished academicians and eminent researchers such as Professor Pranab Bardhan (University of California at Berkeley), Professor Nagpurnanand Prabhala (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School), Professor Paresh Kumar Narayan (Deakin University, Australia), Professor Bala Balachandran (La Trobe University, Australia), Professor Itay Goldstein (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, US), Professor Raghavendra Rau (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK), Professor Uday Rajan (Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, US), Professor Campbell R. Harvey (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, US), Professor Nishith Prakash (University of Connecticut, US), Professor Ashima Goyal (IGIDR, India), Professor Jeffrey M. Wooldridge (Michigan State University, US), Professor Tom Smith (Macquarie University, Australia), Professor Bart Lambrecht (University of Cambridge, UK), Professor Chandra Krishnamurti (University of South Australia, Australia), Professor Nadya Malenko (University of Michigan, US), Professor Robert Faff (Professorial Fellow at Bond University and Emeritus Professor at UQ, Australia), Professor Julian Franks (London Business School, UK), Professor Nandini Gupta (Indiana University, US), Professor Andrew Ellul (Indiana University, US), Professor Ann Sardesai (CQ University Australia, Sydney), Professor Kenneth R. French (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, US), and Professor Suresh Sundaresan (Columbia Business School, US), Professor Suraj Srinivasan (Harvard Business School, US), Professor Jonathan A. Batten (RMIT University College of Business and Law, Australia), Professor Henri Servaes (London Business School, UK), Professor Andrey Malenko (Carroll School of Management, US), Professor Martina Linnenluecke (University of Technology Sydney, Australia), Professor Huu Nhan Duong (Monash University, Australia), Professor Rajkamal Iyer (Imperial College, UK), Professor Douglas Cumming (Florida Atlantic University, US), Professor Andrew Jackson (UNSW Sydney, Australia), Professor Shashwat Alok (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India), Professor R.C. Liao (Rutgers University Newark Business School, US), and Professor Sheetal Sekhri (University of Virginia, US).
RSFE 2025 solicits submission of research papers under various topics in the field of Finance and Economics, such as:
Finance: Corporate Finance, Capital Structure and Dividend Policy, Emerging trends in Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Financial Reporting and Regulations, Behavioural Finance, Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics, Asset Pricing, Financial Markets, Derivatives Trading and Pricing, Market Microstructure and Algorithmic Trading, Banking and Risk Management, Digital Finance, Financial Tech, AI, and Machine Learning.
Economics: Microeconomics, Applied Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, International Trade, Development Economics, Energy Economics, Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Public Finance, Political Economy, Game Theory, Economic Growth, Environmental Economics, and Labour Economics.
The list of topics mentioned above is indicative and research papers on other topics of Finance and Economics are also welcome.
The research symposium invites original papers that address gaps in the related literature, offer new insights and evidence, and have implications for policy making. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Papers for presentation at the symposium will be selected through double blind peer review process. This symposium is also open to doctoral students who are on the verge of completing their dissertation.
Submission of full paper starts: 31 Oct, 2024
Submission of papers closes: 30 April, 2025
Acceptance notification: 15 May, 2025
Registration for symposium starts: 31 Oct, 2024
Registration for symposium closes: May 25, 2025
Symposium dates: 11-13 June, 2025
Note: There is no paper submission fee and no registration fee for the research symposium.
Special Issue with Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (`A’ as per ABDC category)
The papers presented at the research symposium are eligible to be submitted to the Special Issue on “Digital Finance in Emerging Markets: Policies and Impacts” “in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal” (PACFIN), which comes under `A’ as per Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) category. The submission deadline for the special issue is December 31, 2025. The details on the special issue are available in the link below.
Emerging Markets Review on a fast-track basis (`A’ as per ABDC category)
Research symposium organizers will notify the paper presenters of RSFE 2025 to share the revised papers with them after the research symposium. The symposium organizers would then send the papers to the journal editors, who would advise the authors whether their papers is a good fit for the journal or not. The authors can then submit their papers to the journal in the normal reviewing process, which will be processed on a fast-track basis.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/emerging-markets-review
Partner journal with Journal of Accounting Literature (`A’ as per ABDC category) to symposium
Journal of Accounting Literature (JAL) is a partner journal to the research symposium and selected papers will be invited by the symposium review committee to submit. The papers will go through the normal review process.
https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jal
Journal of Emerging Market Finance on a fast-track basis (Categorised as `B’ as per ABDC classification)
A few selected papers presented at the symposium will be published in Journal of Emerging Market Finance. The editors will ensure that papers presented at RSFE 2025 will be reviewed on a fast-track basis.
Full research papers with a title page, abstract, keywords, main text, tables, figures, references etc. should be submitted.
Use Times New Roman with 12-point font size and double spaced.
During your paper submission, you will have to indicate whether your paper should be included under Finance area or Economics area.
You are expected to submit two versions of the paper in PDF format. In the first version, you will have to include the names of authors, affiliation of authors, complete address of affiliated institution, and email address of each author in the paper. In the second version, all author-identifying information must be removed before submission, which will be used for blind review process.
Depending upon whether you would like to consider your paper under Finance area or Economics area, you will have to name your paper, which is in PDF format, as follows:
For Finance: Finance_Title of the paper
For Economics: Economics_Title of the paper
You will have to mention the details of the presenting author during your paper submission.
All email submission should have the following subject line
For Finance: RSFE 2025 Submission Finance
For Economics: RSFE 2025 Submission Economics
Submitted papers should not be accepted for publication in journals at the time of submission.
Symposium Registration link: The online portal for registration will open on 31 Oct, 2024 using the link mentioned below:
Click here to register for RSFE 2025
The objective of this workshop is to expose participants to studies examining the impact of Covid pandemic related events and policy decisions, such as government relief programs, credit and liquidity policies, lockdowns, etc, on firms’ policies, borrowing behavior of firms, liquidity in the financial market, consumers’ financial behaviors, etc. The workshop would mainly focus on the State-dependent effects of credit and liquidity policies on firm’s financial decisions, effects of leverage and liquidity on firms’ borrowing, investment, and credit spread during Covid 19, the differential impact of various policy decisions on firms’ financial behavior, assessing the relative costs and benefits of government policies, the impact of certain government policies on probabilities of default and the moderating factors, and how different policies may be more or less effective responses to different types of shocks. The workshop will also discuss economic factors that affect consumers’ borrowing decisions, impact of economic shocks and government relief programs on financial access to consumers during COVID-19 pandemic and its dynamics.
Julian Kozlowski is a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. Kozlowski earned a BA in Economics from Di Tella University (in Buenos Aires, Argentina) and a PhD in Economics from New York University. Most of his research focuses on macroeconomics and finance. Julian published articles in the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Economic Theory, and Review of Economic Dynamics, among other journals.
Dr Anand Goel is a financial economist. He is an associate professor of finance and director of the financial innovation program at Stevens Institute of Technology. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in finance to business students. He has several years of consulting experience advising businesses on corporate financial management and in litigation cases involving securities and financial instruments. Dr Goel has visited the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as a research economist. His research articles have been published in top-tier peer-reviewed finance journals such as Journal of Business, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, and Review of Financial Studies. His research is in the areas of financial innovation, corporate finance, behavioral finance, financial intermediation, and banking. Dr Goel has a PhD in Finance from University of Michigan, a Master in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
The workshop is open to all but here are a few factors that could aid your decision as an attendee
-Prior knowledge of econometrics and corporate finance is helpful
-Early career researchers, faculty members and doctoral students having interest in event studies, research in economic policies, and specialising in empirical corporate finance.
-Interest in event studies and natural experiments related to Covid pandemic and government policies and their impact on firm level financial decisions and consumers’ financial behavior
There are no registration fees to the workshop and we look forward to your participation.
The online portal for registration will open on 30 November, 2022
Dr Praveen Bhagawan M
Area Chair (Accounting, Finance, and Quantitative Finance)