CALL FOR PAPERS
2026 Nordic Household Finance Summit
📍 Copenhagen Business School
📅 June 1–2, 2026

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Nordic Household Finance Summit, which brings together leading and emerging researchers working on all aspects of household finance, with a strong emphasis on empirical research – including work using administrative and registry data, as well as experimental, survey, and other micro data.

🔍 What we’re looking for
• New, innovative papers that push the research frontier
• Early-stage or developed working papers with clear publication potential
• Projects that would benefit from focused, high-quality feedback

📌 Topics include (but are not limited to)
Household borrowing and financial distress • Saving and portfolio choice • Financial frictions • Insurance • Consumption and labor-income dynamics • Financial literacy and advice • Beliefs and preferences • Risk • Fintech • Behavioral household finance

✨ Special Pitch Session
We will also host a dedicated pitch session for high-potential research ideas that are still in early stages, may lack data access, or would benefit from early feedback (≈5-page proposals).

🔗 Submission Guidelines
• Full papers: Early-stage drafts or developed working papers
• Pitch session proposals: 5-page extended abstracts or full papers
• There is no submission fee
• Submission deadline: February 22, 2026
• Notifications: March 9, 2026
• Submission format: Submit your PDF files via the button below.
For further information, please contact Arna Olafsson, Associate Professor of Finance at
Copenhagen Business School and member of BIGFI, at ao.fi@cbs.dk

Organizers:
Arna Olafsson (Copenhagen Business School and BIGFI)
Andreas Fagereng (BI Norwegian Business School)
Elias Rantapuska (Aalto University)
Gisle Natvik (BI Norwegian Business School)
Marieke Bos (Stockholm School of Economics)
Samuli Knüpfer (Aalto University)
Steffen Meyer (Aarhus University)

The summit is sponsored by the Center for Big Data in Finance (BIGFI) at CBS.