European Financial Management Association (EFMA) was founded in 1991 by Prof. John Doukas to encourage research and disseminate knowledge about financial decision making in all areas of finance as it relates to European corporations, financial institutions and capital markets. To achieve its objective, the European Financial Management Association provides its membership with a refereed journal, the European Financial Management, and holds Annual Meetings at which members exchange ideas, present and discuss their research.
June 24- 27, 2026
EFMA2026 Keynote Address
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Lauren Cohen,
Harvard Business School
Title:
"Dinner Table Alpha"

June 24, 2026, Wednesday, 18:00-19:15
EFM "Merton H. Miller" Doctoral Special Session I:
“Finance & Accounting for Changing the World”
Organizer:
Professor Carmen Olsen,
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)
Business School

June 25, 2026, Thursday, 10:45-12:30
EFMA2026 Special Session II:
“AI and Asset Management”
Organizer:
Emeritus Professor Theo Vermaelen,
INSEAD

June 26, 2026, Friday 26, 13:00–14:45
EFMA2026 Special Session III:
"Geopolitics & the Globalization of Finance”
Organizer:
Professor Arman Eshraghi,
Cardiff University

June 25- 28, 2025
EFMA2025 Keynote Address
Keynote Speaker:
Professor René M. Stulz,
The Ohio State University
Title:
"Do Public Markets have a Future?"

June 26, 2025, Thursday, 10:45-12:30
EFMA2025 Special Session:
““Innovations in Financial Intermediation””
(Open to All Conference Delegates)
Organizer:
Emeritus Professor George G Pennacchi,
University of Illinois

June 26, 2025, Thursday, 15:15-16:30
EFMA2025 Special Session:
“FinTech and AI in Finance”
(Open to All Conference Delegates)
Organizer:
Professor Douglas Cumming
Florida Atlantic University

June 27, 2025, Friday 28, 14:00–15:45
EFMA2025 Special Session:
"Private Markets and Venture Capital in the Era of AI”
(Open to All Conference Delegates)
Organizer:
Professor Ludovic Phalippou,
Oxford University, Said Business School

June 25, 2025, Wednesday, 17:00-19:00
EFM "Merton H. Miller" Doctoral Special Session:
“Hype in Financial Markets: Evidence and Implications”
(Open to All Conference Delegates)
Organizer:
Professor Arman Eshraghi,
Cardiff University, UK

June 26-29, 2024
EFMA2024 Keynote Address
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Robert F. Stambaugh,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Title:
"Green Tilts"

June 26-29, 2024
Distinguished Keynote Speaker :
Professor Lin William Cong,
The Rudd Family Professor of Management,
Cornell University
Title:
"Building AI Models for Finance"

June 26, 2024, Wednesday, 17:00-19:00
EFM "Merton H. Miller" Doctoral Special Session:
“AI and Finance”
(Open to All Conference Delegates)
Organizer:
Professor George Constantinides,
University of Chicago

June 27, 2024, Thursday, 10:45-12:30
EFMA2024 Special Session: “Financial Big Data and Technology”
Organizer:
Professor Luyao Zhang,
Duke Kunshan University
Moderator:
Professor Lin William Cong,
The Rudd Family Professor of Management,
Cornell University

June 28, 2024, Friday 28, 14:00–15:45
EFMA2024 Special Session: "ESG and Finance?"
(Open to All Conference Delegates)
Organizer/Moderator:
Professor Theo Vermaelen,
INSEAD

June 28 - July 1, 2023
EFMA2023 Keynote Address
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Lauren Cohen,
Harvard Business School
Title:
"Patent Hunters: Charting the Future of Innovation"

June 28 - July 1, 2023
Distinguished Keynote Speaker on FX Risk:
Professor Adrien Verdelhan,
Sloan School of Management MIT
Title:
"Exchange Rate Risk in Public Firms"

July 1, 2022, Friday, 18:15-19:15
EFMA2024 Keynote Address
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Toni M. Whited,
University of Michigan, JFE Editor-in-chief
Title:
"Integrating Reduced Form and Structural Work"

June 29, 2022, Wednesday, 18:00-19:15
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Elroy Dimson,
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Title:
"My Reflections on Asset Pricing"

June 29, 2022, Wednesday, 8:30-9:45
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Theo Vermaelen,
INSEAD-Finance
Title:
"Research on Share Buybacks:
The Past and the Future"

June 30, 2021, Wednesday, 18:15-19:15
EFMA2021 Keynote Address
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Jay R. Ritter,
Warrington College of Business
Title:
"SPACs"


