Venue

Minoa Palace Resort, Platanias 730 14, Crete, Greece, minoapalace.gr

Program Chairs

Christos Floros – Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Kyriaki – Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Demetris Kousenidis – Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Christos Negakis – University of Makedonia, Greece

Panayiotis Theodossiou – Ball State University, USA

Sponsoring Institutions

Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Ball State University, USA

Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

University of Makedonia, Greece

Conference Objective

The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers, educators, doctoral students, and practitioners from various international institutions to focus on timely financial issues and research findings pertaining to industrialized and developing countries including the recent financial crisis.

Areas of Interest

Papers in all areas of finance, accounting and economics dealing with developed and developing countries are welcome. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: Asset Pricing; Banking; Behavioral Finance; Buyouts; Capital Structure; CDS; Commodities; Contagion in Financial Markets; Corporate Governance; Corporate Restructuring; Cost of Bankruptcy; Credit Scoring Models; Cross Listing; Derivatives; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurial and Start-up Financing; Environmental Finance; Executive Compensation; Financial Accounting; Financial Analysis; Financial Reporting; FinTech; FX Arbitrage; Investment Banking; IPOs; M&As; Macro Finance; Market Efficiency; Market Microstructure; Pay-out Policy; Portfolio Management; Real Options; Regulation; Risk Measurement; Scale-up Financing; Shipping Finance; Term Structure of Interest Rates; Trading Behavior; Valuation; and Volatility.


Doctoral Student Tutorials and Presentations

The Multinational Finance Society is offering special tutorial lectures for advanced finance doctoral students working on their dissertations. Following the lectures participating students will have the opportunity to discuss their research with our feature speakers and other senior members. Financial support will be provided to a limited number of registered doctoral students not sponsored by their institutions.

Paper and Thesis Submission Guidelines

Please visit our website at http://www.mfsociety.org to submit your completed or nearly completed paper or a dissertation proposal (PDF format) by January 12, 2025. The cover page should include the affiliation, address, and email of each author. Each participant agrees to serve as a discussant of a paper of his/her own area of interest, if needed. Please include whether you would like your paper to be considered for any of the awards mentioned below. Only completed papers qualify for any of the awards.

Paper Awards

Best Paper Award (prize US $750.00 - Open to all papers presented at the conference)

Best Doctoral Paper Award (prize US $500 - Open to all thesis papers presented at the conference)

Papers registered after April 15th, 2025 cannot be considered for the awards.

Registration Fee

Early registrations fee by March 5, 2025 is US $450.00 and by April 15, 2025 is US $550. Registration fee after April 15, 2025 is 20% extra (US $660). For doctoral students and accompanying people, discounts of 25% and 50% apply, respectively. Registered participants can attend all social functions, wherever applicable. The registration fee may include Sunday’s tour of archeological sites, gala dinner, reception, two lunches and four coffee breaks on the days of the conference.

Further Information

Information regarding the conference, accommodation, feature speakers, travel arrangements, fees and other activities will be published on the MFS website as needed. Information about past conferences can be found on the website as well.

Scientific Committee

Renée Adams - University of Oxford, UK
Andreas Andrikopoulos - University of Piraeus, Greece
Hakan Aygoren - Pamukkale University, Turkey
Luis Berggrun - CESA Business School, Colombia
Wolfgang Bessler - University of Hamburg, Germany
Jorge Brusa - Texas A&M International University, USA
Jeffrey Callen - University of Toronto, Canada
Shu Ling Chiang - National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Alain Coen - University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
George Constantinides – University of Chicago, USA
Aurelie Desfleurs - Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Jerome Detemple - Boston University, USA
Shuh-Chyi Doong - National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Anupam Dutta – University of Vaasa, Finland
Chanaka Edirisinghe - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
David Feldman - UNSW Sydney, Australia
Stephen Ferris – University of North Texas, USA
Marta Gómez-Puig - Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
John Hall - University of Pretoria, South Africa
Daniel Havran - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Reza Houston - Ball State University, USA
Abu Jalal - Suffolk University, USA
Edward Jones - Heriot-Watt University, UK
Olga Kandinskaia - University of Limassol, Cyprus
Iordanis Karayiannides – The Cidatel, USA
Edward Lawrence - Florida International University, USA
Yun-Chi Lee - Soochow University, Taiwan
George Leledakis - Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Hong-Jen Lin - Brooklyn College, USA
Benjamin Maury - Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Minna Martikainen – University of Vaasa, Finland
Amin Mawani - York University, Canada
Austin Murphy - Oakland University, USA
Silvia Muzzioli – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Puneet Prakash - Missouri State University, USA
Leszek Preisner - State Academy of Applied Sciences in Krosno, Poland
David Rakowski - UT Arlington, USA
Janicke Rasmussen - BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
Jairo Rendon - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
Paul Ryan - University College Dublin, Ireland
Wendy Rotenberg – University of Toronto, Canada
Jesus Salas - Lehigh University, USA
Kashif Saleem - University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Yeh Shih-Kuo - National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Miriam Sosa Castro - Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico
Simon Sosvilla-Rivero - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Zhenzhen Sun - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Lorne Switzer - Concordia University, Canada
George Tannous - University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Ming Shann Tsai - National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Sami Vähämaa - University of Vaasa, Finland
Mika Vaihekoski - University of Turku, Finland
Andrew Vivian - Loughborough University, UK
Milos Vulanovic - EDHEC Business School, France
Uwe Walz - Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany
Gabrielle Wanzenried - Univiversity of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland HES-SO, Switzerland
Yu-Chen Wei - National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Joakim Westerholm - University of Sydney, Australia
Ania Zalewska - Leicester University Business School, UK

Local Organizing Committee

Ioannis Chatziantoniou - Hellenic Mediterranean University
Anestis Ladas - University of Macedonia, Greece
Panagiotis Tachinakis - University of Macedonia, Greece 
Eftalia Tabouratzi - Hellenic Mediterranean University
Dimitrios Vortelinos - Hellenic Mediterranean University