European Alternative Finance Research Conference 2021 (6th edition)

6th edition of European Alternative Finance Research Conference. Details about Call for papers will be added later

Program (hybrid):
● Oct 5 - 9:00-16:00 - COST 19310 FinAI Management Committee meeting
● Oct 6 - 9:00-18:00 - International scientific conference (joint industry-academic event)
○ Keynote
○ 2 Morning sessions COST FinAI -dedicated topics (3 parallel tracks)
○ Lunch
○ Keynote afternoon
○ 2 Afternoon sessions (3 parallel tracks)
● Oct 7 - 9-00-16:00 - COST FinAI WG meetings
○ WG1
○ WG2
○ WG3

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
● 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
● Relationships between new and traditional finance providers
● Role of regulation and other formal or informal institutions (e.g. new European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regime – ECSP)
● Psychology and behaviour of retail investors
● Financial and entrepreneurial ecosystems for new forms of alternative finance (incl. financial advisors)
● Civic crowdfunding and match-funding for public and non-profit projects (including arts and culture)
● Community finance and ownership (including DAO)

Organising Committee:
● Friedemann Polzin (Utrecht University)
● Thomas Walther (Utrecht University)
● Kees Koedijk (Utrecht University) - tbc
● Ronald Kleverlaan (Utrecht University)
● Lex van Teeffelen (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht)
● Karsten Wenzlaff (Hamburg University)
● Rotem Schneor (Agder University)
● Jörg Osterrieder (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, University of Twente)
● Valerio Potì (University College Dublin) - tbc
● Jana Peliova (University of Economics in Bratislava) - tbc
● Veni Arakelian (Athens University of Economics and Business - tbc
● Daniele Marazzina (Politecnico di Milano) - tbc
● Kristina Sutiene (KTU Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Lithuania) - tbc
Ania Zalewska (University of Bath) - tbc