Behavioural Finance Working Group
18th Annual Conference
4–6 June 2025 – Holiday Inn, Kensington, London
Overview
The Behavioural Finance Working Group conference is a three-day international meeting organized by the BFWG. It examines a wide range of behavioural finance topics within financial decision making, biases, experimental finance, corporate finance, fund management, asset pricing, forecasting, volatility, market sentiment and sociology of finance.
The Conference also features support for selected PhD students by ICAEW Charitable Trusts and additional support by Elsevier.
As in previous years, the Conference promises to bring together a vibrant community of academics and practitioners in finance, economics, psychology and decision sciences, featuring regular and poster paper presentations, keynote lectures and research awards.
Organisers
Professor Arman Eshraghi
Cardiff University, UK.
Professor Gulnur Muradoglu
University of Illinois, US.
Professor Ana-Maria Fuertes
Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School, City University of London.
Keynote Speakers
We are delighted to have three keynote speakers at the conference: Professor Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College London), Executive Editor of Review of Financial Studies, Research Fellow at CEPR, and Director of the European Finance Association; Professor Anna Pavlova (London Business School), Editor of Review of Financial Studies, Research Fellow at CEPR, and former Director of the American Finance Association; Hilary Till, Principal at Premia Research, Editor, of Commodity Insights Digest, former Head of Portfolio Analysis at BNY Mellon, member of the Bretton Woods Committee
Tarun Ramadorai
Imperial College London, Executive Editor, Review of Financial Studies
Ana Pavlova
London Business School, Editor, Review of Financial Studies
Hilary Till
Premia Research, Editor, Commodity Insights Digest
Call for Papers
This year’s conference theme is Financial Behaviour in Commodity and Energy Markets. However, submissions are welcome in any area of finance and economics with behavioural angles.
You can submit papers in progress or full papers by 21 February 2025.
To make a submission, simply email your paper as a PDF to info@behaviouralfinance.org
Registration
Opens: 21 February 2025
Early Bird registration: £400 to midnight (GMT), 30 April 2025
Standard registration: £475
Registration includes attendance at all conference sessions during the three days, printed conference material, refreshments, lunches, and the gala dinner.
Affiliated Journals
Accepted papers may be invited to a special issue of:
International Review of Financial Analysis
International Review of Economics and Finance
Qualitative Research in Financial Markets
Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting
Further information about the submission process will be shared during the conference.
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