Tenth Annual Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

Following the success of the ninth conference in 2025, we are pleased to announce that the Tenth Annual Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre (MARC) Conference will be held at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London on Monday 15 June 2026 in cooperation with 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 23 January 2026 at 10pm 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 “MARC2026” in the subject of your email. We expect to notify authors about acceptances by 26 March 2026.

STRUCTURE: Sessions will take place between 8:30am and 5:30pm on Monday 15 June 2026 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 and ECGI)
Audra Boone (Texas Christian University and ECGI)
Claudia Custodio (Imperial College and ECGI)
Éric de Bodt (Norwegian School of Economics)
B. Espen Eckbo (Dartmouth College and ECGI)
Eliezer Fich (Drexel University and ECGI)
Andrey Golubov (University of Toronto and ECGI)
Jarrad Harford (University of Washington and ECGI)
Tim Jenkinson (University of Oxford and ECGI)
Dirk Jenter (London School of Economics and ECGI)
Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard University)
Kai Li (University of British Columbia and ECGI)
Song Ma (Yale University)
Ronald Masulis (University of New South Wales and ECGI)
Micah Officer (Loyola Marymount University and ECGI)
Robert Parrino (University of Texas at Austin)
Raghavendra Rau (University of Cambridge and ECGI)
Stefano Rossi (Bocconi University and ECGI)
Henri Servaes (London Business School and ECGI)
Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University and ECGI)
Sudi Sudarsanam (Cranfield University)
Karin Thorburn (Norwegian School of Economics and ECGI)
Wenyu Wang (Indiana University and Vanderbilt)

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, City St George’s 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 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