Conference Event: November 8, 2019 Event Location: SwissTech Convention Center, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a prominent tool in finance. Applications of AI range from trading, investing, and risk management, to advisory and marketing of financial services. The 10th annual Swissquote Conference will feature current research and insights[…]
CfP Deadline Date: August 31, 2019 – Midnight EDT Conference Event: November 15, 2019 Event Location: Columbia Business School, New York, USA Organizer(s): Simona Abis Anton Lines Laura Veldkamp While technological change has been a common component of economic growth throughout human history, developments over the past three decades – such as modern computing, big[…]
Authors: Sebastian Horn, Carmen M. Reinhart, Christoph Trebesch Date: July 2019 Abstract: Compared with China’s dominance in world trade, its expanding role in global finance is poorly documented and understood. Over the past decades, China has exported record amounts of capital to the rest of the world. Many of these financial flows are not reported[…]
CfP Deadline Date: October 31, 2019, 24:00 CET Conference Event: April 3, 2020 Event Location: SIX ConventionPoint, Zurich, Switzerland Organizer(s): Martin Brown – Roland Fuss – Markus Schmid University of St.Gallen, Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance This year the conference will also feature a dedicated Poster Session for PhD students. Accepted papers are eligible[…]
CfP Deadline Date: October 1, 2019 Conference Event: March 19-21, 2020 Event Location: Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, USA Keynote Speaker(s): Douglas Breeden, Duke University Toni Whited, University of Michigan Organizer(s): The Midwest Finance Association The MFA organizing committee would like to invite you to submit papers for presentation at the 69thAnnual Meeting. All topics[…]
CfP Deadline Date: August 31, 2019 Conference Event: December 7 and 8, 2019 Event Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Organizer(s): The program committee of the Financial Research Association seeks new finance papers of general interest to the profession for the 16th annual meeting of the Association. We are specifically looking for papers that have not[…]
Technology firms such as Alibaba, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Tencent have grown rapidly over the last two decades. The business model of these “big techs” rests on enabling direct interactions among a large number of users. An essential by-product of their business is the large stock of user data which are utilised as input to[…]
Authors: Yuko Hashimoto ; Signe Krogstrup Date: April 2019 Abstract: This paper assesses the role of bank and nonbank financial institutions’ balance sheet foreign exposures and risk management practices in driving capital flow responses to global risk. Using a unique and previously unexplored dataset on domestic and cross border balance sheet positions of financial institutions[…]
More than ten years have passed since the global financial crisis triggered a comprehensive regulatory reform process. Many important measures have been put in place since then. The title of the next panel discussion therefore raises a very pertinent question for global regulators: where next? Should regulators take a long break, as some stakeholders might[…]
Authors: Ata Can Bertay, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Harry Huizinga Date: June 2019 Abstract: This paper provides evidence on how bank performance and strategies vary with the degree of bank internationalization, using data for 113 countries over 2000-15. Over this period, bank internationalization is associated with lower valuations and lower returns on equity. However, developing country[…]