The EFA 2026 Annual Meeting offers seven sessions in collaboration with institutional partners.

Papers for the special sessions undergo the same submission and review process as regular paper submissions. Submitting to special sessions means that authors submit to the main conference. The papers for all special sessions are chosen from the pool submitted to the conference. 

• Bank for International Settlements (BIS) on Digital Innovation and the Future Financial System.
• Deutsche Bundesbank on Rewiring Finance: Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and the Future Architecture of Financial Systems.
• Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) on Empirical Asset Pricing.
• European Central Bank (ECB) on Technological Innovation in Finance: Implications for Markets and Central Bank Policy.
• Financial Services and Markets Authority (FMSA) on The Future of  Equity Financing: the Role of Public and Private Markets. 
• The Pension Research Council at the Wharton School and PeRCent at Copenhagen Business School on Household Finance.
• MAN Group (MAN) on Government Debt Sustainability.
• Moody’s on Private Credit.
• National Bank of Belgium (NBB) on Collateral in Banking: From Risk to Transmission.
• Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) on Understanding the Long-run Drivers of Asset Prices.