Corporate Policies and Asset Prices Conference
December 9 – 10, 2026, Nice (France)
EDHEC Business School and the University of Luxembourg are pleased to announce the 6th Conference on Corporate Policies and Asset Prices, which will take place in person in Nice, France, on December 9–10, 2026. The conference will focus on the interactions between corporate decisions and asset prices, broadly defined. It will feature eight paper presentations, each followed by a discussion, a keynote lecture, and several opportunities for scholarly exchange and networking.
Call for Papers is open!
Interested authors should submit their papers as a pdf-file by using the following link. The submission fee is €50. The submission fee is waived for PhD students who expect to be on the 2026-2027 academic job market. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by early September 2026. Submission deadline: August 17th, 2026
Keynote Speaker
Zhiguo He (Stanford University)
Professor Zhiguo He is the James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is a financial economist whose expertise covers financial markets, financial institutions, and macroeconomics broadly. He is also conducting academic research on Chinese financial markets, and writing academic articles on new progress in the area of cryptocurrency and blockchains. Before joining Stanford GSB, he was on the faculty of Chicago Booth from 2008 to 2023, where he received tenure in 2015 and led Becker Friedman Institute China from 2020 to 2023.
Scientific Committee
Rui Albuquerque (Boston College)
Frederico Belo (INSEAD)
Maria Cecilia Bustamante (University of Maryland)
Paul Ehling (BI Norwegian Business School)
Andrea Gamba (Warwick Business School)
Lorenzo Garlappi (University of British Columbia)
Thomas Geelen (Pennsylvania State University)
Brent Glover (Carnegie Mellon University)
Dirk Hackbarth (Boston University)
Jakub Hajda (HEC Montréal)
Juan Imbet (Paris Dauphine University)
Lars Kuehn (Carnegie Mellon University)
Praveen Kumar (University of Houston)
Howard Kung (London Business School)
Erwan Morellec (EPFL)
Dino Palazzo (Federal Reserve Board)
Lukas Schmid (University of Southern California)
Gill Segal (University of North Carolina)
Chi-Yang Tsou (University of Manchester)
Neng Wang (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
Toni Whited (University of Michigan)
Lu Zhang (Ohio State University)
Francesca Zucchi (European Central Bank)
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