Finance research and academic work

Position your research on corporate finance, asset pricing, or financial intermediation within the conference's focus on rigorous empirical and theoretical work—Johns Hopkins Carey has a strong tradition in banking and credit markets research that aligns with specific paper topics

Leverage Arvind Krishnamurthy's keynote presence as a signal that the conference values work on financial stability, risk, and macroeconomic connections to markets—consider framing submissions that bridge microeconomic finance questions with systemic implications

Use the Baltimore location and Johns Hopkins's institutional connections to regional policy and financial institutions as context for papers addressing real-world finance applications—the conference attracts practitioners and academics, making applied research particularly competitive