2026 ECMI Call for papers

DEADLINE: 6 SEPTEMBER 2026

The European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) is calling for the submission of research papers in the area of capital markets and their functioning.

A committee of academics and international experts will select the best paper and award the author(s) a EUR 5 000 prize and the opportunity to present the findings at the 2026 ECMI Annual Conference, taking place on 10 November 2026. This prestigious international event brings together policymakers, academics and industry representatives to take stock of recent developments in European capital markets and analyse their long-term implications.

Research papers should cover (but are not limited to) one or more of the following areas:

• Competitiveness, integration and the global positioning of EU capital markets
• The future architecture of EU capital markets supervision and the implications for the Market Integration and Supervision Package
• Channelling household, institutional and long-term savings into productive investment and Europe’s strategic priorities
• Retail investment, financial literacy and behavioural drivers of market participation
• Scale-up financing, IPO markets and the financing of innovation in Europe
• Market structure, liquidity, transparency and the role of market makers in EU securities markets
• Post-trade integration, settlement infrastructure and the future of European market infrastructure
• The digital transformation of capital markets: digital assets, tokenisation, DLT, artificial intelligence and platform finance
• Sustainable finance and the evolving ESG ecosystem: disclosure, standardisation, reporting frameworks and data quality
• The role of non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI), institutional investors and macroprudential frameworks in capital market
• The macro-financial effects of monetary, fiscal and industrial policies on capital markets
• The ‘cost of non-Europe’ in financial integration and capital markets development

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