Edinburgh Corporate Finance Conference
Sunday 24 and Monday 25 May 2026
Welcome! It is our great pleasure to invite you to the Seventh Edinburgh Corporate Finance Conference (#ECFConference26), which will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh Business School on Sunday 24 and Monday 25 May 2026.
The 2026 edition of the conference is proudly held with the support of AFFECT (Academic Female Finance Committee of the American Finance Association) and Elsevier.
We are a boutique conference with a double blind review process by a highly reputable Program Committee and this year will accept only 9 papers in 3 plenary sessions of reverse discussion format and 6 papers in 2 speedy presentation sessions without discussants over a day and one-half.
Interested academics and practitioners are welcome to attend.
As detailed in our full Call for Papers, submissions are invited across any topic of theoretical and empirical corporate finance.
The keynote speech will be delivered by Manju Puri, J. B. Fuqua Professor in Finance at Duke University.