Call for papers ECAF / COST Conference 2022

Topics

This year’s conference features the special topic ‘Fintech and the common good’. We welcome the submission of rigorous quantitative, qualitative, mathematical/formal and/or theoretical studies related to fintech and alternative finance from an economic, computer science, data analytics, law, sociological or other perspective, focussing on but not limited to:

• Artificial Intelligence in Finance (including Explainable Artificial Intelligence – XAI)
  • Transparency of AI applications in finance
  • Tackling bias in artificial intelligence in finance
  • Machine Learning and complex system application on Fintech (incl. ESG application)
• Fintech
  • FinTech and digital finance (including DeFi)
  • Fintech and its impact on financing SMEs (e.g. central bank digital currencies, tokenization, computer science approaches in alternative finance)
  • Fintech as enabler of sustainable innovation (e.g. circular economy, product-service systems etc.)
  • My financial data and privacy
• Alternative Finance
  • Relationships/ cooperation between new and traditional finance providers
  • Ecosystems for new forms of alternative finance
  • Alternative finance in developing markets: financial inclusion, access, and impact
  • Role of regulation and other formal or informal institutions (e.g. new European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regime – ECSP)
  • Psychology and behaviour of retail investors and financial advisors
  • Civic crowdfunding and match-funding for public and non-profit projects (including arts and culture)
  • Community finance and ownership (including DAO)
  • Ethical issues in alternative finance practice
  • Risk and risk management in alternative finance

Paper submissions and deadlines for the conference (October 6th)

Abstracts for papers of up to 300 words (in English) on the above-mentioned topics should be sent to [email protected] before 15-07-2022. Upon submission, please indicate the topic under which you want to submit your work (see list of topics) and if you are a member of the COST FinAI network. The submitted abstract will be reviewed by a scientific committee. Notification of acceptance will be given by 15-08-2022.

Prior to the conference (15-09-2022) full papers need to be submitted (~10.000 words). Submissions should ideally be structured as follows:

• Introduction (Problem definition, research gap and objective)
• Theoretical foundation
• Methodology / empirical research context
• Finding/results
• Implications for entrepreneurial finance research and practice

Every paper accepted for presentation will be assigned a discussant who provides in-depth feedback.

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