Call for Papers 2025

Ninth Annual Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre Conference

Date

16 Jun 2025

Location

Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London

Following the success of the eighth conference in 2024, we are pleased to announce that the Ninth Annual Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre (MARC) Conference will be held at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London on Monday, 16 June 2025 in cooperation with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

The conference organizers invite authors to submit original, theoretical and empirical papers covering issues related to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), including topics such as deal structure from financing to integration, activism, regulatory changes, domestic and cross border transactions and corporate social responsibility among others.

PAPER SUBMISSION

The submission deadline is Friday, 24 January 2025, at 22:00 GMT (United Kingdom time).
There is no submission fee.
To be eligible for submission, the paper must still be at a revisable stage (i.e. neither forthcoming nor close to being accepted at a journal) by the date of the conference.
Please email a pdf version of your paper to BayesMARC@city.ac.uk. The file name must be: [presenting author’s last name]_[shortened paper title] (for example, Smith_Deal integration.pdf). Please include “MARC2025” in the subject of your email.
We expect to notify authors about acceptances by 27 March 2025.

STRUCTURE

Sessions will take place between 08:30 and 17:30 on Monday, 16 June 2025, with a keynote speech during lunch and reception following the conference. The conference will be held in-person at Bayes Business School, and all presenters and discussants are expected to attend in-person. Conference attendance during the day is complimentary for academics and PhD students. The conference dinner for presenters, discussants, and program committee members will be held in the evening of the conference day.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Kenneth Ahern (University of Southern California), Marco Becht (Université libre de Bruxelles & ECGI), Audra Boone (Texas Christian University & ECGI), Claudia Custodio (Imperial College & ECGI), Éric de Bodt (Norwegian School of Economics), B. Espen Eckbo (Dartmouth College & ECGI), Eliezer Fich (Drexel University & ECGI), Andrey Golubov (University of Toronto & ECGI), Jarrad Harford (University of Washington & ECGI), Tim Jenkinson (University of Oxford & ECGI), Dirk Jenter (London School of Economics & ECGI), Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard University), Kai Li (University of British Columbia & ECGI), Song Ma (Yale University), Ronald Masulis (University of New South Wales & ECGI), Micah Officer (Loyola Marymount University & ECGI), Robert Parrino (University of Texas at Austin), Raghavendra Rau (University of Cambridge), Stefano Rossi (Bocconi University & ECGI), Henri Servaes (London Business School & ECGI), Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University), Sudi Sudarsanam (Cranfield University), Karin Thorburn (Norwegian School of Economics & ECGI).

ABOUT MARC

The M&A Research Centre, founded in 2008, is a breakthrough: the first time a major business school has established a focused centre for research into the global M&A industry. With its proximity to the City of London, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School) is perfectly placed to maintain close contacts with M&A bankers, lawyers, consultants, accountants and other key players. MARC is one of 18 research centres at Bayes. A number of corporations, regulators, professional services firms, exchanges and universities have been using MARC for swift access to the latest research and practical ideas. MARC is proud to have its Sponsors including Ardian, BP, ICAEW, KPMG, Mergermarket, SS&C Intralinks, and WTW as research partners. In 2011, MARC was chosen by AACSB to be the 'Spotlight' feature in its Research/Scholarship Resource Centre. Link to article: AACSB Spotlight: MARC, City University, London.