3rd London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop
Date: 10th June 2025
Venue: Bayes Business School, City, University of London
Organisers: Simeon Djankov (FMG/LSE), Orkun Saka (City), Sujata Visaria (City) & Paolo Volpin (City)
Bayes Business School and Department of Economics at City, University of London as well as Financial Markets Group at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) will jointly organise the third workshop on the theme of political finance. The workshop will take place in person at Bayes Business School on 10th June 2025. Papers from the past editions have ended up being published in top journals such as Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics.
The conference webpage is available here.
Public lecture: 10th June 2025, 18:00-19:00
The workshop features a keynote speech by Professor Anat Admati (Stanford), titled "Financial Power, Public Trust, and Democratic Erosion": Financial institutions play a central yet under-examined role in the decline of democratic governance and accountability. Drawing on insights from political economy and recent global developments, Anat Admati will trace how distorted incentives and weak oversight mechanisms have allowed key players in finance to undermine the rule of law, fuel public disillusionment, and deepen governance failures. She will also discuss how scholars and practitioners can push back against these forces.
To attend the keynote you must register.
Register for "Financial Power, Public Trust, and Democratic Erosion"
Scientific Committee:
Thorsten Beck (EUI)
Matilde Bombardini (Berkeley)
Barbara Casu (City)
Ralph De Haas (EBRD)
Serdar Dinc (Rutgers)
Simeon Djankov (LSE)
Barry Eichengreen (Berkeley)
Mara Faccio (Purdue)
Sergei Guriev (LBS)
Rainer Haselmann (Goethe)
Vasso Ioannidou (City)
Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard)
Mancy Luo (City)
Daniel Paravisini (LSE)
Karthik Ramanna (Oxford)
Orkun Saka (City)
Emil Verner (MIT)
Vikrant Vig (Stanford)
Sujata Visaria (City)
Paolo Volpin (City)
