Submissions are now closed for the 7th International Young Finance Scholars’ (IYFS) Conference. Having cancelled the 2020 conference, this year it will be entirely virtual and as such become truly international. The Young Finance Scholar’s (YFS) conferences began in 2014 and being hosted by the University of Sussex most young scholars were PhD students in the UK and Europe. This year, with our international focus, the event is hosted by Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS) which has campuses in Oxford, UK and Shenzhen, China. The conference has a long tradition of helping young scholars develop the skills they need to publish academic papers and seek employment in the dynamic and challenging environment of financial markets and finance education.

We welcome submissions from all area of finance including asset pricing, banking, behavioral finance, blockchains, corporate finance, crypto asset markets, decentralized finance, derivatives, entrepreneurial finance, financial econometrics, fintech, fund management, insurance, investment management, machine learning applications, market microstructure, mathematical finance, pricing and hedging, quantitative finance, risk management and trading. The virtual format creates many opportunities for a larger and more international Programme Committee that responds in detail to presentations made by PhD students and non-tenured faculty. Keeping to European time zones allows participants in Asia to join for the morning and those in the Americas to join for the afternoon. The virtual format this year creates the opportunity to network with young scholars from all over the world in breakout rooms dedicated to particular topics, led by senior international academics in that field, held around the time of UTC Midday.