Venue

Minoa Palace Resort

Platanias 730 14

Crete, Greece

minoapalace.gr

Keynote Speakers

Geert Bekaert, Columbia University, USA

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, USAA 

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, 2024 cannot be considered for the awards.

Registration Fee


Early registrations fee by March 5, 2024 is US $450.00 and by April 15, 2024 is US $550. Registration fee after April 15, 2024 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