Adam Smith Workshop

Adam Smith Workshop Spring 2027

15th and 16th April 2027

Imperial College

Call for Papers can be downloaded from this link.

You are invited to submit papers for the Spring 2027 Adam Smith Workshop. The workshop will take place over two days on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th April 2027. The workshop will be hosted by Imperial Business School in London. There will be a conference dinner on April 15th 2027. The workshop will consider papers in all areas of finance, including Asset Pricing, Behavioural Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation, Household Finance, and International Finance. Papers will be presented in two parallel streams, one labelled Asset Pricing (AP) and the other Corporate Finance (CF). There will also be one joint session with papers that are of interest to researchers in both Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance.

Submission deadline and procedure:

• The submission deadline is Sunday 6 December 2026 (midnight GMT).

• There is a submission fee of GBP 100 per submission

• To pay for your submission, click HERE

• When submitting your PDF, there is no need to remove author information from the cover page.

• Depending on whether you wish your paper to be considered for the Asset Pricing or Corporate Finance stream, please name the PDF file as:

- AP_LASTNAME_Firstname_Title.pdf

- CF_LASTNAME_Firstname_Title.pdf

• Please submit your paper by email to financedeptevents@imperial.ac.uk along with proof of payment (e.g. screenshot of receipt).

Funding:

There is limited funding available forth e travel and accommodation costs of discussants.

Program Committees:

Asset Pricing:

Co-chairs: Harjoat Bhamra (Imperial College and CEPR), Adrian Buss (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and CEPR) and Irina Zviadadze (HEC Paris and CEPR)

Members: Frederico Belo (INSEAD and CEPR), Harjoat Bhamra (Imperial College and CEPR), Pedro Bordalo (Said Business School), Svetlana Bryzgalova (LBS and CEPR), Laurent Calvet (SKEMA and CEPR), Roberto Gomez Cram (LBS and CEPR), Marco Grotteria (LBS), Christian Heyerdahl-Larsen (BI Oslo), Christian Julliard (LSE and CEPR), Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College and CEPR), Howard Kung (LBS and CEPR), and Raman Uppal (EDHEC and CEPR).

Corporate Finance:

Co-chairs: Claudia Custodio (Imperial College and CEPR), Olivier Dessaint (INSEAD and CEPR), Jessica Jeffers (HEC Paris and CEPR)

Members: Claire Célérier (University of Toronto and CEPR), James Dow (LBS), Mariassunta Giannetti (SSE and CEPR), Xavier Giroud (Columbia and CEPR), Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe (LSE and CEPR), Johan Hombert (HEC Paris and CEPR), Dirk Jenter (LSE and CEPR), Peter Koudijs (Erasmus and CEPR), Augustin Landier (HEC Paris and CEPR), Steven Ongena (University of Zurich, SFI and CEPR), Marco Pagano (Federico II and CEPR), Jörg Rocholl (ESMT and CEPR), Victoria Vanasco (CREI and CEPR) ), and Boris Vallée (INSEAD and CEPR).

Local committee:

Gilles Chemla, Pasquale Della Corte, Marco DiMaggio, Harsha Dutta, Ziang Li, Clara Martinez Toledano, Alex Michaelides, Charles Parry, Magdalena Rola-Janicka, Savitar Sundaresan, Paolo Zaffaroni

The Adam Smith Workshop is a regular event organized jointly by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), EDHEC Business School, HEC Paris, Imperial College Business School, INSEAD, London Business School, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Saïd Business School (University of Oxford).