Financial Literacy and Behavioral Finance
Mechanisms, Contexts, and Emerging Technologies
Date: November 6, 2026
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Schreiber Center, Loyola's Quinlan School of Business
Individual financial decision-making plays a critical role in economic security, financial resilience, and social inclusion within an increasingly complex global economy. The Financial Literacy and Behavioral Finance Conference explores how cultural and social influences, behavioral biases, emotions, risk tolerance, and emerging technologies shape financial behavior and outcomes.
In collaboration with our sponsor, the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM), the conference will highlight recent scholarly and educational work that examines underlying mechanisms, establishes causal relationships, evaluates interventions, and informs meaningful policy approaches to financial literacy, particularly in emerging and developing economies.
The conference’s key takeaways include:
- Financial resilience, responses to financial shocks, economic vulnerability, and inequality.
- The roles of identity, social status, gender, and culture in shaping financial decision-making.
- Fintech and artificial intelligence as tools for financial assessment, prediction, intervention, and dynamic behavioral analysis.
- Financial literacy evidence on children, adolescents, college students, young and older adults.
- Consumer protection, lending practices, financial regulation, and the behavioral design of financial products and services.
Agenda
Speakers and panelists to be announced soon.
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8:30 am
Breakfast and Registration
9:00 a.m.
Welcome
9:15 a.m.
Keynote Opening Address
Keynote speaker to be announced soon
10:00 a.m.
Panel 1: The Influence of Cultural and Behavioral Biases, Emotions, Risk Tolerance, Financial Risk Assessment
Panelists to be announced soon
11:00 a.m.
Q&A and Break
11:15 a.m.
Panel 2: Financial Literacy Education: Integration of Behavioral Interventions and Their Effectiveness, Plus Student Experiential Testimonials
Panelists to be announced soon
12:15 p.m.
Lunch and Keynote Address
Keynote speaker to be announced soon
1:30 p.m.
Panel 3: Ethical Implications of AI-Driven Financial Advice, Algorithmic Decision-Making, and Digital Financial Platforms
Panelists to be announced soon
2:30 p.m.
Q&A and Break
2:45 p.m.
Panel 4: Financial Literacy and Financial Inclusion in Emerging and Developing Economies
Panelists to be announced soon
3:45 p.m.
Q&A and Break
4:00 p.m.
Concluding Remarks and Networking
Call for Papers
Researchers are invited to submit original theoretical, empirical, and methodological research for a special issue of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) focused on Financial Literacy and Behavioral Finance: Mechanisms, Contexts, and Emerging Technologies.
Submissions may explore topics including financial literacy and education, behavioral biases, emotions and risk tolerance, cultural and social influences, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies in personal finance, and financial resilience and inclusion. Interdisciplinary research is especially encouraged.
Accepted papers will also be invited for presentation at conference on November 6, 2026.