Track Description

In recent years, the convergence of finance, economics, neuroscience, and psychology has opened new avenues for understanding how individuals and organizations navigate uncertainty, risk, and complex decisions, shedding light on the emotional and cognitive processes that drive financial behavior, organizational dynamics, and outcomes that serve both business success and the broader collective good.
This track welcome contributions that explore how behavioral and neurofinance, as well as organizational neuroscience, can deepen our understanding of decision-making in financial, accounting, and corporate contexts. In particular, the interest is in how cognitive and emotional processes shape key judgments related to risk and uncertainty, reporting, investment, and performance, both at the individual and institutional levels.
The conference examines a wide range of behavioral finance topics within financial decision making, investments, financial markets, corporate finance, fund management, banking, asset pricing, forecasting, experimental finance, and sociology of finance. Papers on topics such as banking and regulation, behavioral asset pricing, sentiment, behavioral corporate finance, biases and heuristics, pandemics, cryptocurrencies, equality, diversity & inclusion, financial analysts, financial behavior, financial markets, investment decisions, managerial biases, retail investors, sentiment, climate finance, and CSR and ESG are welcomed.
The track also welcome studies on human interaction with emerging technologies (e.g., AI, virtual reality, and automation), including how trust, performance, and ethical considerations are navigated in these increasingly hybrid environments.
The track further encourages research addressing the role of trust, collaboration, and social influence, particularly in supporting outcomes that benefit not only businesses but also the collective good. Contributions may explore the outcomes of collaborative efforts between businesses, communities, and stakeholders in addressing social and environmental challenges, as well as the neuropsychological mechanisms underlying trust, loyalty, and ethical decision-making in financial and organizational contexts. Finally, the track invites work examining the neurobiological foundations of motivation, recognition, and inclusivity in the workplace; the application of affective and cognitive neuroscience to organizational communication, team performance, and conflict resolution; and empirical neuroscience research related to well-being, burnout, and engagement in professional settings.
Submissions from interdisciplinary researchers working at the crossroads of finance, accounting, behavioral sciences, neuroscience, and sustainability studies, including experimental studies, neurophysiological methods (e.g., EEG, eye-tracking), behavioral fieldwork, and theoretical papers are encouraged.