5th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on “Challenges to Financial Stability”

CfP Deadline Date: April 28, 2019 Conference Event: August 19-20, 2019 Event Location: Halle (Saale), Germany Keynote Speaker(s): Anat R. Admati (Stanford University Graduate School of Business), Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) Organizer(s): The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association, FIRE research centre at Frankfurt[…]

26th International Conference on Forecasting Financial Markets

CfP Deadline Date: February 22, 2019 Conference Event: June 19-21, 2019 Event Location: San Giobbe, Cannaregio, Venice, Italy, Guest Speaker(s): Sergio Focardi (De Vinci Research Center Paris), Monica Billio (Ca’ Foscari University Venice) Organizer(s): Forecasting Financial Markets Association, Ca’Foscari University Forecasting Financial Markets is an international conference on quantitative finance, which has been held every[…]

2019 Annual Conference in International Finance (IF2019)

CfP Deadline Date: March 01, 2019 Conference Event: June 06, 2019 Event Location: Imperial College London, 170 Queens Gate, South Kensington, London, UK Keynote Speaker(s): Patrick Bolton (Columbia Business School) Organizer(s): Imperial College Business School, Cass Business School, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, BI Norwegian Business School We are[…]

Southern Finance Association 2019 Annual Meeting

CfP Deadline Date: March 15, 2019 Conference Event: November 20-23, 2019 Event Location: Waldorf Astoria, Orlando, Florida Keynote Speaker(s): tba Organizer(s): Southern Finance Association (SFA) The Southern Finance Association announces its 59th annual meeting at the Waldorf Astoria in Orlando, Florida (https://www.waldorfastoriaorlando.com) from November 20 – 23, 2019. As Program Chair, I invite you to[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper – Banks’ Systemic Risk and Monetary Policy

Authors: Ester Faia, and Soeren Karau Date: January 2019 Abstract: The risk-taking channel of monetary policy acquires relevance only if it affects systemic risk. We find robust evidence of a systemic risk-taking channel using cross-country and time-series evidence in panel and proxy VARs for 29 G-SIBs from seven countries. We detect a significant role for[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper – The Trials of the Trilemma: International Finance 1870-2017

Authors: Barry Eichengreen, and Rui Esteves Date: January 2019 Abstract: In this paper we survey the history of international finance spanning a century and a half. We start by characterizing capital flows in the long run, organizing our discussion around six facts relating to the volume and volatility of capital flows, measured in both net[…]

27th Finance Forum

CfP Deadline Date: March 7, 2019 Conference Event: July 11-12, 2019 Event Location: Madrid, Spain Keynote Speaker(s): tba Organizer(s): Spanish Finance Association (AEFIN The Department of Business Administration of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is proud to host the 27th Finance Forum, the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Finance Association (AEFIN). The Finance Forum will[…]

January 2019 – ESRB Advisory Scientific Committee will award the “Ieke van den Burg Prize for Research on Systemic Risk”

The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) is an EU body with a mission to prevent and mitigate systemic risks to financial stability. The ESRB is chaired by the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and its membership incorporates central banks and microprudential supervisors from across the EU. The ESRB also comprises an Advisory[…]

21st Annual Texas Finance Festival (TFF)

CfP Deadline Date: January 28, 2019 Conference Event: April 25-27, 2019 Event Location: AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin, TX Keynote Speaker(s):  tba Organizer(s): University of Texas at Austin The 21st Annual Texas Finance Festival (TFF) will be held on April 25-27, 2019 at the AT&T Executive Education[…]

BIS Working Paper – Global Banking, Financial Spillovers, and Macroprudential Policy Coordination

Authors: Pierre-Richard Agénor and Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva Date: January 2019 Abstract: The gains from international macroprudential policy coordination are studied in a two-region, core-periphery macroeconomic model with imperfect financial integration and cross-border banking. Financial frictions occur at two levels: between firms and banks in each region, and between periphery banks and a global[…]