Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute, Drexel University 2025 Academic Conference Call For Papers

Call for papers for 18th Annual Corporate Governance Academic Conference at Drexel University In collaboration with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the Society for Financial Studies (SFS), the Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute at Drexel University invites papers in any area related to corporate governance, which includes topics related to the board of directors, compensation, ownership structure, shareholder activism, mergers, private equity, capital structure as a form of governance, ESG-related issues, corporate governance regulation, talent management, political economy of corporate governance, etc.

The conference will take place on Friday, April 11, 2025.

The conference this year offers an optional dual submission to the Review of Corporate Finance Studies (RCFS).

Submission deadline: Monday, December 30, 2024 (11:59pm)

Submission Instructions

• To be eligible for submission, the paper must still be at a revisable stage (i.e., neither published nor so close to publication that significant changes are not feasible) by the date of the conference.
• When uploading your paper (in pdf format), please save the file name as follows: All Authors’ Last Names.pdf. Submitting Author’s name should be first and in all caps. For example: WALKLING-Schlingemann-Stulz.pdf.
• There is a non-refundable submission fee of $95 per paper [the submission fee is waived for papers by PhD students]
• After registering and paying (payment waived for PhD students), you will receive by email a link to a page where you can submit your paper and select the dual submission option.
• The submitting author will be informed of the conference decision by the end of February 2025.

Program Committee: David Becher (Drexel); Jay Cai (Drexel); Jeffrey Coles (Utah); Naveen Daniel (Drexel); Diane Del Guercio (Oregon); David Denis (Pittsburgh); Daniel Dorn (Drexel); Eli Fich (Drexel); Laura Field (Delaware); Nick Gantchev (Warwick); Todd Gormley (WASHU); Tom Griffin (Villanova); Jarrad Harford (Washington); Peter Iliev (Penn State); Wei Jiang (Emory); Dalida Kadyrzhanova (Federal Reserve Board); Joseph Kalmenovitz (Rochester); Jonathan Karpoff (Washington); Tanja Kirmse (Miami OH); Michelle Lowry (Drexel); Nadya Malenko (Boston College); Lalitha Naveen (Temple); Ed Nelling (Drexel); Greg Nini (Drexel); Micah Officer (Loyola Marymount); Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth); Anh Tran (City London); Paolo Volpin (Drexel); Michael S. Weisbach (OSU); Jared Wilson (Indiana); Tracie Woidtke (Tennessee); Yuhai Xuan (California Irvine); Ke Yang (Lehigh); David Yermack (NYU).