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📢 5th DC Finance Conference Call for Papers 📍 American University, Washington, DC 🗓 June 6, 2026 Submission deadline: April 15, 2026 • Limited presentations, highly interactive • Dedicated discussants • No submission/registration fees Submit/RT: https://t.co/yt6mn6MHO7 http
The dedicated discussant model at this conference creates direct feedback loops with peers—position a paper on regulatory compliance or market microstructure as an opportunity to stress-test findings against specialized expertise before broader publication
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Financial and Wealth Management experts needed for commentary on why most families won't build generational wealth with the $1 million threshold
The $1 million threshold is a moving target due to inflation and lifestyle creep—families need to focus on savings rate and investment discipline rather than a fixed dollar amount, which Money Lion readers can track through budgeting tools
View detailsUSA TODAY
Commodity market analysts and CFPs to discuss why silver is so cheap compared to gold
Silver's industrial demand volatility—tied to electronics, solar panels, and manufacturing cycles—creates price pressure that gold doesn't face, since gold is primarily a store of value. When manufacturing slows, silver loses its dual-purpose appeal.
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Expert Quote Request for Article on Mid-Year Equipment ROI
Mid-year equipment decisions should factor in remaining seasonal demand—farmers deciding on purchases now can still recoup costs before harvest if they choose equipment that addresses their peak-season bottlenecks
View detailsMarketWatch
Looking to hear from financial advisors, retirement counselors, or other wealth experts about inflation and retirement
How inflation erodes fixed-income retirement plans: Walk MarketWatch readers through concrete examples of how a 3-4% annual inflation rate over a 30-year retirement reduces purchasing power, and explain why traditional 4% withdrawal rates may need recalibration in higher inflation environments
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Opportunities from our partners 📣 Call for Papers: Submit to the BREAD/ITAM/CAF Conference on Development Economics (Mexico City, Oct 23–24, 2026). Deadline: June 19, 2026 (23:59 CST). ✍️ Submit proposal: https://t.co/xkqZQBTkWl
Position research on how development economics intersects with Mexico's specific policy challenges—the conference's Mexico City location makes locally-grounded findings particularly relevant to the BREAD/ITAM/CAF audience of practitioners and academics
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Commodity market analysts and CFPs to discuss why investors are buying silver in 2026
Silver's dual role as both an industrial commodity and inflation hedge is driving 2026 demand, particularly as manufacturers increase semiconductor and renewable energy production while investors seek portfolio diversification beyond traditional stocks and bonds
View detailsConsumerAffairs
Housing economists and financial experts to weigh in on cost of living across generations
Compare the ratio of median home prices to median household income across Gen Z, millennials, Gen X, and boomers at comparable life stages—ConsumerAffairs readers need concrete data showing whether today's 30-year-olds face genuinely different affordability barriers than their parents did at the same age
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Looking for CFPs and commodities experts to weigh in on types of silver bars
Investment-grade vs. collectible silver bars: which offers better value for retail investors
View detailsUSA TODAY
Commodity market analysts/crypto researchers to discuss whether precious metals or crypto are better during a recession
Precious metals have a 5,000-year track record as recession hedges with predictable storage and regulatory clarity, while crypto's 15-year history lacks sufficient recession-cycle data to make equivalent claims about stability during economic downturns
View detailsUSA TODAY
Commodity market analysts and CFPs to discuss gold vs. Bitcoin as investments
Address the volatility trade-off: Gold has demonstrated 50+ year price stability for risk-averse investors, while Bitcoin's 24/7 trading creates daily 10-15% swings that can trigger emotional decision-making in retail portfolios
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Commodity market analysts and CFPs to discuss silver vs. Bitcoin as investments
Silver's industrial demand (electronics, solar panels, medical devices) provides a tangible use case beyond speculation, whereas Bitcoin's value relies entirely on adoption and sentiment—a distinction USA TODAY readers should understand when evaluating portfolio risk
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Seeking financial experts to talk about stealth wealth
Break down the practical difference between stealth wealth and frugality for NerdWallet's audience—explain how high-net-worth individuals use invisible wealth-building tactics like maxing retirement accounts and tax-loss harvesting rather than displaying consumption
View detailsThe Deal Board Podcast
Business podcast seeking expert guests on buying/selling businesses, M&A, entrepreneurship
How sellers can identify and fix operational blind spots in the 6-12 months before putting their business on the market—the specific metrics that M&A buyers scrutinize hardest
View detailsFundFire
Advisors to speak about private credit and customized portfolios
Portfolio customization in private credit allows advisors to address the specific cash flow timing and risk tolerance of individual clients rather than forcing them into standardized fund structures that may not align with their liability schedules
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📢 Call for Papers – 5th DC Finance Conference 2026 The American University invites submissions for the 5th DC Finance Conference, which brings together researchers across the DMV. Fees • No submission fee • No registration fee Submission Deadline: April 15, 2026 Read h
The DMV's concentration of financial regulators, policy institutions, and academic researchers makes this conference ideal for presenting work that bridges academic finance research with practical applications in banking oversight, securities regulation, or financial policy.
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📣 Call for Papers — BREAD/ @ITAM_mx / @AgendaCAF Conference on Development Economics 🇲🇽 ITAM, Mexico City 📅 Oct 23–24, 2026 🗓️ Submission deadline: June 19, 2026 Submit: https://t.co/up8T1dFibH 🧵👇
Frame research findings around Mexico's specific economic challenges—inequality, regional development disparities, or labor market transitions—to align with ITAM's Mexico City location and the conference's regional focus on Latin American development
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Open call for papers, Long-Term Budget Deficits: Economic Effects and Potential Responses. Conference to be held in Washington, DC on May 20–21, 2027. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on August 31, 2026. More information: https://t.co/euZGe2C9aK https://t.co/532tJdKeok
Frame a paper around how long-term budget deficits specifically impact infrastructure investment timelines in the next decade, positioning your expertise ahead of the 2027 Washington DC policy cycle when these projections will inform actual legislative decisions
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.@EnseaO announces the #CISEA_2026 Call for Papers for the International Conference on Statistics & Applied Economics. 📅 6–8 Oct 2026 Submit your research and be part of the conversation. #ACEImpact #Research #Conference https://t.co/AaQdPN3FzX
Frame your research around how statistical methods are solving real economic policy challenges in 2026 — CISEA attracts practitioners who need applicable findings, not just theoretical contributions
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Submit your research for the 2026 Stigler Center-CEPR Political Economy of Finance Conference. 📍 Chicago | 🗓️ Nov 6-7, 2026 🔎 Theme: Crony Capitalism in the 21st Century. How does concentrated wealth reshape political power and democracy today? ⏰
Frame research around how post-2008 financial deregulation enabled wealth concentration among institutional investors, directly linking banking policy to political donation patterns and legislative capture in specific sectors
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Call for Speakers – Fund Expo London 2026. We are inviting funders, founders and advisers with real deal experience to share practical insights, playbooks and case studies at Olympia London on 3–4 November 2026. Apply via the Speaker Submission Form on our website or email http
Demystifying the funding landscape: Share your playbook for navigating investor relations and closing deals in today's market
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Call for Speakers – Fund Expo London 2026 🎤 We’re curating practical, deal‑focused sessions for 3–4 Nov, Olympia London. Looking for funders, founders, family offices, PE/VC, private credit, advisers + ecosystem leaders with real‑world playbooks and case studies. No sales
Behind-the-scenes deal mechanics: Walk through a complex funding round you led, highlighting decision-making frameworks, due diligence red flags, and negotiation pivots that shaped the outcome
View detailsEconomics research
📢JI Call for Papers: submit by 1 June 2026. RAPS/RCFS Europe Conference in Cambridge; 22 Sept 2026; organised by Constantine Yannelis @CamEcon & Isil Erel (Ohio State); keynote Xavier Giroud (Columbia Business). Details: https://t.co/Pi2Ouw6i3V #econtwitter https://t.co/fP
Highlight how the Cambridge venue and Xavier Giroud's keynote presence attract rigorous empirical work on corporate finance and labor economics—positioning submissions as addressing real-world policy questions alongside academic rigor
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📢📢Call for Papers: Conference on Machine Learning in Economics 📍Beijing | July 11–12, 2026 Topics: AI+macro, finance, metrics, theory, applied, etc. Confirmed speakers (so far): F Kübler, @comp_simon, S Maliar, @zhigangfeng, Gopalakrishna, Payne 🗓️Submit by May 1: https://t.c
Position your work within the macro-finance intersection that the conference explicitly targets—highlight how your ML research directly addresses inflation forecasting, monetary policy transmission, or asset pricing in ways traditional econometric approaches cannot
View detailsFinance research and academic work
Call for papers: 2026 Johns Hopkins Carey Finance Conference Oct 29-30, 2026 | Baltimore Keynote: Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford GSB) Submission deadline: June 14 Details: https://t.co/qX47135zXh @JHUCarey @VadimElenev @arebucci1 #AcademicTwitter
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
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International Academia #Conference 30 June 2026 - 1st July 2026 Strategic Transformation & Economic Hedging in an Uncertain World. Building Agility, How? International Scientific Conference. CALL FOR PAPERS. Abstracts accepted till 30 May 2026 Global Speakers Welcomed.
Frame agility as a measurable operational capability rather than abstract adaptability—present case studies showing how organizations implemented specific structural changes (supply chain diversification, decision-making decentralization, scenario planning protocols) that directly reduced exposure to economic shocks between 2020-2025
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Global Call for Papers! ICETMRS-2026!Register Now! CERADA organizes “2nd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Multidisciplinary Research Studies (ICETMRS-2026)” which will be held on 16 – 17 Nov, 2026 in Istanbul, Turkey (Hybrid Event). https://t.co/72lkLjIiNK https://
Position your research within the conference's multidisciplinary framework by explaining how your work bridges traditionally separate fields—ICETMRS-2026's two-day format in Istanbul allows for concentrated networking across disciplines that typically operate in silos.
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Submit your research for the 2026 @StiglerCenter-CEPR Political Economy of Finance Conference. 📍 Chicago | 🗓️ Nov 6-7, 2026 🔎 Theme: Crony Capitalism in the 21st Century. How does concentrated wealth reshape political power and democracy today? ⏰
Position research on how financial deregulation since 2008 has concentrated wealth among institutional investors, directly enabling their capture of regulatory agencies and legislative priorities—a concrete case study for the conference's crony capitalism framework.
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Fund Expo London 2026 – Call for Speakers We’re opening the speaker programme for Fund Expo London 2026, taking place 3–4 November at Olympia London. We’re looking for funders, founders and advisers with real deal experience to share practical insights on capital raising, https
Demystifying the modern funding landscape: What founders need to know about navigating different capital sources in 2026
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📢 Call for Papers — 2 days left The 2nd International Conference of the Georgian Economic Association will take place in Tbilisi 🇬🇪 on June 26–27, 2026. Join us in the beautiful city of Tbilisi for two days of academic exchange and collaboration. We are honored to welcome h
Georgia's economic position as a bridge between Europe and Asia makes this conference particularly relevant for discussing regional trade dynamics, monetary policy coordination, and cross-border economic integration research.
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