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The Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) welcomes submissions for its 2016 Corporate Finance Theory Symposium to be held in Cambridge UK, Cambridge Judge Business School,  16-17 September 2016.

The symposium covers all areas of theoretical corporate finance, including theory papers that combine corporate finance theory with a related area such as banking, market micro-structure, asset pricing, and financial accounting.

The format of the 2016 symposium will be similar in nature to last year’s edition (Cambridge Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2015).  We expect to have about 9 papers (each with a discussant) and one keynote speech. This year’s keynote speaker will be Anjan Thakor, John E. Simon Professor of Finance,Director of the PhD Program, and Director of the WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research.

Please submit your paper (in pdf format) by clicking the following link: Electronic Submission Form

Please read carefully before submitting your paper: Further Information and Requirements

The paper’s cover page must include: a title, abstract, authors' names and affiliations and the email address of the corresponding author.

The deadline for submissions is 10 March 2016. The submitted paper must not have been accepted (or conditionally accepted) at a journal at the time of submission.

The corresponding author of selected papers will be informed by  12 May 2016.

Conference Organizers: Nadya Malenko (Boston College Carroll School of Management) and Bart Lambrecht (CERF, Cambridge Judge Business School and CEPR)

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)

The event is in collaboration with the CEPR.

Email: admin@cerf.cam.ac.uk

Website:  http://www.cerf.cam.ac.uk