CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2025 International Conference in Financial Science

Theme: First Naples Conference on Emerging Topics on Banking and Finance

Conference Venue: University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli – Piazzetta Sant' Andrea delle Dame, 9, 80138 Napoli NA

Keynote Speaker: Murillo Campello, Eminent Scholar in Finance University of Florida

Conference Co-Chairs

Antonio Meles - University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, ITALY

Vincenzo Verdoliva – University of Naples Parthenope, ITALY

Conference Topics

The 2025 International Conference in Financial Science offers a unique opportunity for scholars to converge and examine the evolving landscape of banking and finance. By fostering intellectual exchange, the event seeks to address critical issues and uncover pathways for advancing financial innovation, stability, and inclusivity. Participants are invited to contribute cutting-edge research strategies that highlight the challenges and opportunities within the global financial system. The conference welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers addressing a variety of relevant themes. 

These include, but are not limited to:

• Asset allocation and valuation
• Banking regulation and financial services
• Behavioral and experimental finance/economics
• Climate finance and sustainability
• Corporate finance, IPOs, SEOs, M&A, and crowdfunding
• Country funds, sovereign funds, and hedge funds
• Digital finance, cryptocurrency finance, and blockchain
• Emerging markets finance
• Entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, and private equity
• Ethical finance, green finance, ESG and CSR
• Financial crises, contagion, integration, and global risks interconnection
• Financial engineering and derivatives
• Household finance, real estate finance, and microfinance
• Portfolio management and optimization
• Risk management and compliance
• Small business finance

Supporting Journals

• Journal of Financial Intermediation
• Journal of Corporate Finance

Articles must be presented at the conference. Among them, the co-chairs, in consultancy with the Editors in Chief (EICs), will invite selected papers to be submitted and considered for publication free of submission charge. The submission to any of the supporting journals will be from December 15th, 2025 to January 30th, 2026. Authors will be required to attach a “Response letter to the discussant” that shows all the changes made to their manuscript based on the discussant’s report to speed up the reviewing process. However, EICs may apply a single-blind review on the base of both the severity of discussants’ concerns and the quality of job done in revision. Papers submitted must not be under review by any other journal.

Timeline and Submission Process

Papers must be submitted by April 30, 2025 (Early submissions are highly encouraged) by attaching to the email both title page and full paper without authors’ details. Decisions will be provided by mid-May.

For any inquires please email to 2025icfs@sciencesconf.org

Tentative schedule (14 papers)

• Thursday, June 19: 10 a.m. ‒ 11 a.m. early registration and welcome reception.
• Thursday, June 19: 11 a.m. ‒ 1.15 p.m. Kickstart, Keynote speaker and session with papers presentation.
• Thursday, June 19: 2.30 p.m. ‒ 6 p.m. session with papers presentation.
• Friday, June 20: 9 a.m. ‒ 12.30 p.m. session with papers presentation.
• Friday, June 20: 2.30 p.m. ‒ 6 p.m. Guided Tour to Naples historical center
• Friday, June 20: 7 p.m. Gala Dinner

Attendance Fee

• See registration section

About the Conference

• The conference will be in person only.
• Authors of accepted papers will be expected to also act as discussants.
• Conference fees are all-inclusive of meals and supporting materials