CERF's 25th Anniversary Conference

To celebrate 25 years of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) this event will convene current and former CERF researchers, distinguished academics, policymakers, and selected practitioners for a wide-ranging series of presentations and discussions on leading developments in financial research.

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Full Programme of the CERF 25th Anniversary Conference 2026 at this link

Photography of Day One

Photography of Day Two

Line up of Speakers:

• 'What is a bank?' by Kern Alexander (University of Zurich)
• 'Who Issues What and Why: Mapping Financial Innovation' by Ana Babus (Washington University in St. Louis)
• ‘The Economics of Professional Partnerships: Firm Size, Financing and Liability’ by Shiqi Chen (Lancaster University)
• 'Reflections from Afar' by Dame Sandra Dawson (University of Cambridge)
• 'Inattention to the Coming Storm? Rising Seas and Sovereign Credit Risk' by Atreya Dey (University of Cambridge)
• Dean Gishan Dissanaike (University of Cambridge)
• 'Tipping Points and Financial Development' Lord John Eatwell (University of Cambridge)
• Andy Haldane CBE (University of Sheffield)
• 'The Evolution of the UK's Capital Market' by Dame Julia Hoggett (London Stock Exchange)
• 'Why CERF?: Addressing a Strategic Anomaly in the Discipline' by William Janeway (University of Cambridge)
• '25 Years of CERF: A Review' by Bart Lambrecht (University of Cambridge)
• Professor Deborah Prentice (University of Cambridge)
• 'Screening Precision, Collateral, and Credit Reallocation' by Manju Puri (Duke University)
• ‘The future of finance and research’ Panel Discussion by Victoria Saporta (Bank of England)
• '‘Efficiency and Equity in Climate Policy: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Road Ahead’ by José Scheinkman  (Columbia University)
• 'Inequality in the Consumer Credit Channel of Monetary Policy' by Antonia Tsang (University of Cambridge)
• 'Nimble Banks' by Wolf Wagner (University of Rotterdam)
• 'You Pays Your Money and You Takes Your Choice: Real Estate Agent Commission Reform and Austria’s Partial Strict Rent Control Regime' by  Sofie Waltl (University of Cambridge)
• 'Reallocation of Brown Assets' by Lucy Wang (University of Alabama)
• 'CERF in the Next 25 Years: Future Research Priorities' Panel Discussion by Narine Lalafaryan, Kamiar Mohaddes, Daniel Ruf and Weilong Zhang (University of Cambridge)