Adam Smith Workshop

Adam Smith Workshop Spring 2026

9th and 10th April 2026

London Business School

Call for Paper:

The workshop will consider papers in all areas of finance, including Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation, Household Finance, and International Finance. Papers will be presented in two parallel streams, one labeled 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 information is available at this link.

Program Committees: 

Asset Pricing: 

Co-chairs: Svetlana Bryzgalova (LBS and CEPR), Adrian Buss (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and CEPR), Howard Kung (LBS 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: Olivier Dessaint (INSEAD and CEPR), Johan Hombert (HEC Paris and CEPR), and Lakshmi Naaraayanan (LBS).

Members: Pat Akey (INSEAD), Claire Célérier (University of Toronto and CEPR), Claudia Custodio (Imperial College and CEPR), James Dow (LBS), Mariassunta Giannetti (SSE and CEPR), Xavier Giroud (Columbia and CEPR), Andrey Golubov (University of Toronto), Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe (LSE and CEPR), Dirk Jenter (LSE and CEPR), Augustin Landier (HEC Paris and CEPR), Steven Ongena (University of Zurich, SFI and CEPR), Marco Pagano (Federico II and CEPR), Noémie Pinardon-Touati (Columbia), Jörg Rocholl (ESMT and CEPR), Henri Servaes (LBS and CEPR), Lin Shen (INSEAD), and David Thesmar (MIT and CEPR). 

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).