As part of its activities, Inquire Europe, organizes bi-annual conferences. The autumn conference will be organized in in Prague (Czech Republic): 27 – 29 September 2026. The theme of the conference is:
“Expectations and Asset Prices”
Investor expectations about cash flows and returns play a central role in asset pricing. How are expectations formed? How do expectations relate to bubbles? How do expectations affect portfolio investment decisions? This conference will feature keynote presentations by Robin Greenwood (Harvard), Antti Ilmanen (AQR), and Stefan Nagel (Chicago). We invite submissions of papers that address the above and related questions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, deviations from rational expectations and their implications; optimism and pessimism in asset valuations and market dynamics; investment strategies and anomalies; factor investing; strategic and tactical asset allocation; portfolio choice under model and parameter uncertainty; and short selling.
Authors, both academics and from the financial industry, are invited to submit papers for presentation at the conference. Papers should have a quantitative background, with empirical testing of models, or other practical relevance and applications. We also encourage submissions of papers on subtopics in the broad area of institutional investing and asset management that do not necessarily fit the main topic for the seminar.
The audience of the Inquire conference consists of financial professionals, mostly asset managers, all with experience in quantitative analysis of financial markets. A typical presentation will last around 30 minutes, followed by a 30-minute discussion with the audience. The Program Committee of Inquire Europe Papers will select papers for presentation.
Application Process & Deadline
We kindly request you to submit your paper online before Friday, 17 April 2026. The selection will be based on complete papers. The Program Committee of Inquire Europe Papers will select papers for presentation.
Inquire Europe Prize
There is a prize of €4 000 available for the best paper presented at the meeting. The Prize Committee of INQUIRE Europe will select the best paper.
Inquire Europe will pay the travel (economy class) and lodging expenses for the speakers at the meeting.
We are looking forward to receiving your papers.
Raul Leote de Carvalho, Chair of the Program Committee Inquire Europe
and Deputy Head of the Quantitative Research Group of BNP Paribas Asset Management
Magnus Dahlquist, Academic Coordinator Inquire Europe
and Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics