Experimental Finance Conference 2025

We invite you to the Experimental Finance 2025 conference, to be held at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, June 12 – 14, 2025. The conference will also serve as the 15th annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Finance and it will be preceded by a two-day summer school. 

Keynotes

• Itay Goldstein (The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania)
• Rosemarie Nagel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Preliminary Schedule

The conference starts on Thursday morning and will end on Saturday around lunch time.
There will be a reception on the evening before the conference, Wednesday, 11 June.
The conference dinner is planned for Friday, 13 June.

Registration

Register for the conference at https://www.conftool.org/ef2025/.
Registration is open until 16 May 2025.

Submission

We invite you to submit full papers or extended abstracts (minimum 1000 words) using experimental methods and covering all areas of finance, broadly defined. Please only submit if you have already collected your data. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by two anonymous referees.

Submissions were open until 14 March 2025.
Notifications of acceptance have been sent on 16 April 2025.

Conference Fees

Faculty / Post Docs / regular attendees: 480 €
PhD Student: 340 €

PhD Student Conference and Summer School combo: 440 €

Venues

The main conference will be held at the School of Business and Economics main building at Tongerstraat 53, 6211 LM Maastricht.

The reception will be at the beautiful old city all of Maastricht (Stadhuis Maastricht, or Maastricht Town Hall, Markt 78, 6211 CL Maastricht) on Wednesday evening.

Accommodation

We have put together a list of recommendations and special offers for accommodation during the conference. Please note that some offers expire soon. All information is available here.

Getting to Maastricht

Maastricht is perfectly situated at the southernmost point of the Netherlands, near the borders of Belgium and Germany. The city is easily accessible through various means of transportation. Below, you’ll find helpful tips and essential information to assist you in planning your journey to Maastricht.

By Car or Public Transport

Find out how to get to Maastricht by car or public transport and how to get around the city on the Maastricht bereikbaar website.

By Plane

Maastricht is centrally located between Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Paris and London, and is surrounded by several international airports. You can fly into one of the following airports. From there, you can easily take a train or book a shuttle to Maastricht.

The Netherlands

• Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (see notes below)
• Eindhoven Airport
• Groningen Airport Eelde
• Rotterdam The Hague Airport
• Maastricht Aachen Airport

Belgium

• Brussels Airport (see notes below)
• Brussels South Charleroi Airport
• Liège Airport

Germany

• Cologne Bonn Airport
• Düsseldorf Airport
• Weeze Airport
• Frankfurt Airport

Trains from Amsterdam Airport Shiphol

The cheapest way to get to Maastricht from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Brussels Airport is by train.

The Schiphol train station is situated directly below the airport. Train tickets are available from the yellow ticket machines near the platforms at Schiphol Plaza or from the ticket offices, which are situated close to the red/white-checked cube at Schiphol Plaza. Trains depart for Maastricht twice an hour. Buy a one-way ticket (“enkele reis”) to Maastricht Central Station. Intercity trains are faster than local trains (“stoptrein” or “sprinter”). When in doubt, you can always ask someone at the ticket office. Almost everyone in the Netherlands speaks English fairly well. For journey advice and time tables you can also check: www.ns.nl/en.

Trains from Amsterdam Airport Shiphol

There is a train station in the basement of Brussels airport, level -1, just follow the signs. You can buy a ticket to Maastricht there and you can ask for a printed itinerary. For more information, consult the website of the Belgian Railways.

Airport Shuttle from Different Airports

Airport Service Patrick provides airport transport services. You can split the costs if you travel with other people (depending on how many people fit in the car/van). Make sure to tell them how much luggage you have as well as with how many people you travel.

EF Organizers

Please do not hesitate to contact us, if you have any questions.

• Peiran Jiao (Maastricht University)
• Olga Rud (University of Stavanger)
• Christian König-Kersting (University of Innsbruck)

M-BEES and M-BEPS 2025

On the two days before the conference, June 10-11, the Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium (M-BEES) and the Maastricht Behavioral Economic Policy Symposium (M-BEPS) take place – a great opportunity to attend all three events back-to-back.