Summer Research Conference 2025

About

The Centre for Analytical Finance at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India, invites submissions for its annual flagship Summer Research Conference in Finance. The conference is scheduled from July 31, 2025 to August 01, 2025. Just like before, the conference will focus on "Recent Advances in Finance."

We invite papers from all areas of Finance. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Fresh papers or papers with new ideas, concepts, or methods will be preferred.

Key Information

Paper Selection

We tentatively aim to have eight papers in this year's programme. Presenters can expect quality discussants, an active audience, and informal interactions with participants. 

Submitting Papers

Go to the paper submission page and upload the paper. 

The submission deadline is April 10, 2025.

Best Paper Award

CAF confers the best paper award, which consists of cash prize of USD 5,000 and a certificate of merit. The best paper award committee is headed by the keynote speaker. The opinion expressed by audience through an audience poll will be considered by the committee.

Funding

For presenters and discussants, we will provide a travel grant and cover local transfers, conference stay, and meals. We warmly welcome other conference participants. We hope that you can take care of the accommodation and pay for travel to and from Hyderabad from your research budget or from sources such as CIBER.

Organising Committee

Sumit Agarwal

Conference Co-Chair, Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Business School and a Professor of Economics and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore, Managing Director at the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute, President, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research

Shashwat Alok

Conference Co-Chair, Faculty of Finance, Research Director, Digital Identity Research Initiative (DIRI), Indian School of Business

Bhagwan Chowdhry

Conference Co-Chair, Faculty of Finance, Indian School of Business, Executive Director, Digital Identity Research Initiative (DIRI), and Faculty Director, I-Venture @ ISB

Amit Goyal

Conference Co-Chair, Faculty of Business and Economics, Swiss Finance Institute and University of Lausanne, SFI Senior Chair

Prasanna Tantri

Conference Co-Chair, Faculty of Finance and Executive Director at the Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business, Independent Director, Power Finance Corporation Limited

Agenda

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Papers

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About CAF and ISB

Center for Analytical Finance (CAF) is a research centre in ISB dedicated to research in all areas of finance. CAF houses researchers and data sets and its researchers are drawn from the top institutions around the world.

Indian School of Business (ISB) is a self-contained 260-acre campus with character. The campus architecture embraces boulders and rock formations typical of Hyderabad, and merges them with trees, landscaping, greenery, and graceful buildings with state of art infrastructure.