Call for papers

We are glad to announce the 20th Biennial CIGAR 2025 Conference, which will be held in June 25-27, 2025, in Athens, Greece at the Athens University of Economics and Business (https://cigar-athens.aueb.gr/about/venue) 

The Conference theme is “Envisioning the Public Sector Financial Management of the future: Embedding Accruals, Sustainability and Technology as the new normal”.

We announce the release of the call for papers for the 5th CIGAR-PMM Annual Issue, which will be published in 2025, in Public Money & Management (PMM) Volume 45.

The editorial team of the CIGAR-PMM Annual issue (Marco Bisogno, Josette Caruana, André Lino, Susana Jorge, and Gorana Roje) invites all scholars who participate in the Networks’ events, or who have a significant interest in CIGAR’s research agenda, to submit papers for consideration for publication in the 5th CIGAR-PMM Annual Issue. The CIGAR-PMM Annual Issue will continue not being tied to a particular theme. The aim is to publish relevant empirical and theoretical articles in topics related to public sector accounting understood in a broader sense, highlighting the contribution to both academia and practice of the CIGAR Network’s research, and aiming at bridging the research-practice gap in the field of public sector accounting and financial management.

The articles in the CIGAR-PMM Annual Issue are circulated to the public management and public finance communities (as well as to the practitioner community via CIPFA members’ free access to PMM). Furthermore, the entire contents of the issue are made free to view from publication for three months by PMM’s publisher.

Articles (including New Development Articles) for consideration should be submitted by October 31, 2024, through PMM’s electronic submission system https://www.tandfonline.com/ toc/rpmm20/current, selecting the ‘CIGAR ANNUAL PMM ISSUE’. The anticipated publication date is October 2025: PMM’s Vol. 45, No. 7. Debates should be submitted directly by email to Michaela Lavender (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). For further information please contact Marco Bisogno (Guest Contact Editor) at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Connected to the CIGAR Conference in Tokyo, JPBAFM aims to publish a special issue on “Financial reporting in the public sector: a dialogue that supports a sustainable future in times of crisis”. The SI aims to address an interdisciplinary dialogue between various actors and stakeholders in order to minimize the risk of tensions arising due to the challenging times the world has been facing.

Guest Editors:

Susana Jorge, University of Coimbra; Josette Caruana, University of Malta; Suzanne Lowensohn, University of Vermont; and Mari Kobayashi, Waseda University.

The deadline for submissions is 30 November 2023 31 March 2024.

For more information, click here and visit the website JPBAFM at https://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/financial-reporting-public-sector-a-dialogue-supports-a-sustainable-future-times

We are glad to announce the 17th CIGAR 2024 Workshop, which will be held June 12-14, 2024, in Udine, Italy. The workshop theme is "Digital and smart governance for public sector accounting, auditing, and accountability." 

As usual, the workshop is combined with the PhD symposium; the CIGAR 2024 workshop will also host the 4th IPSASB Research Forum. 

Extended abstracts (max. 800 words, including references) should be sent to  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or via the platform https://cigar2024udine.uniud.it/abstract-submission  by January 15, 2024 February, 29, 2024

Authors will receive feedback in mid-February after a double-blind review by the Academic Committee. 

The deadline for full paper submission is April 30, 2024. 

For more information, don't hesitate to contact the Chair of the Organizing Committee, Silvia Iacuzzi, at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit the Workshop’s website at  https://cigar2024udine.uniud.it/

For the workshop call for papers, please click on  https://cigar2024udine.uniud.it/call-for-papers-2

For the IPSASB Research Forum call for papers:  https://cigar2024udine.uniud.it/call-for-papers-1