16th Annual Central Bank Conference on the Microstructure of Financial Markets

CfP Deadline Date: May 15, 2020 t.b.a. Conference Event: November 2-3, 2020 rescheduled to October 7-8, 2021 Event Location: Zurich, Switzerland Keynote speaker(s): Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris) and Robert Almgren (Quantitative Broker) Organizer(s): Swiss National Bank (SNB) The Swiss National Bank will host the 16th Annual Central Bank Conference on the Microstructure of Financial Markets[…]

August 2020: New VoxEU Column – Managing volatile capital flows in emerging and frontier markets

by Reinout De Bock, Dimitris Drakopoulos, Rohit Goel, Lucyna Gornicka, Evan Papageorgiou, Patrick Schneider and Can Sever The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented sharp reversal of portfolio flows in emerging and frontier markets, triggering concerns about financial stability and consequently, strong policy responses. This column uses a novel analytical framework, the capital-flows-at-risk methodology, to show[…]

August 2020: New VoxEU Column – Managing capital flows to emerging markets

by Bilge Erten, Anton Korinek and José and Antonio Ocampo Recent market volatility has underlined how fickle international capital flows can be, and how important it is for emerging economies to have an adequate system of macroprudential policies in place. Capital controls that protect recipient countries from excessively risky types of flows are a crucial[…]

Big Data and Securities Markets

CfP Deadline Date: September 27, 2020 Conference Event: December 3-4, 2020 Event Location: Online Organizer(s): The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the National Science Foundation, and the the Review of Financial Studies (RFS) Big data technologies enable investors in financial markets to process information more quickly and provide information that was not previously available.[…]

70th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Finance Association

CfP Deadline Date:October 1, 2020 Conference Event:March 18-21, 2021 Event Location:Chicago, IL, USA Keynote speaker(s): Antoinette SchoarStewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, MIT. Wei XiongTrumbull-Adams Professor of Finance, Princeton University. Organizer(s):Midwest Finance Association The Midwest Finance Association and Professor Nagpurnanand Prabhala, 2021 program chair, invite submissions of researchpapers in all areas of[…]

Conference on the Financial Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic

CfP Deadline Date: September 15, 2020 Conference Event: October 12-16, 2020 Event Location: Online Organizer(s): Journal of Finance and University of Chicago Booth School of Business The Journal of Finance and the Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance at University of Chicago Booth School of Business are organizing a conference on the financial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The[…]

Conference on Banking and the State

CfP Deadline Date: August 31, 2020 Conference Event: February 23, 2021 Event Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany or Online Organizer(s): Leibniz Institute for Financial Research (SAFE), Institute for Banking and Financial History (IBF) and the European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh) The strength of the public sector is a significant characteristic of the[…]

Academic Event: Bank resolution in times of COVID-19

CfP Deadline Date: September 1, 2020 Conference Event: November 27, 2020 Event Location: Brussels, Belgium or online Organizer(s): Single Resolution Board and Florence School of Banking and Finance The Single Resolution Board and the Florence School of Banking and Finance (European University Institute) are organising an interdisciplinary Academic Event on ‘Bank resolution in times of[…]

6th BdF-BoE International Macroeconomics Workshop: Micro and Macro in International Finance

CfP Deadline Date: September 30, 2020 Conference Event: December 3, 2020 Event Location: London, UK or Online Organizer(s): Bank of England and Banque de France The International Directorate of the Bank of England and the International Macroeconomics Division of the Banque de France are organizing a joint workshop on 3 December 2020 on “Micro and macro in[…]

14th Swiss Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation

CfP Deadline Date: October 30, 2020 Conference Event: March 28-31, 2021 Event Location: Lenzerheide, Switzerland Organizer(s): Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), University of Zurich (UZH), Swiss Finance Institute (SFI), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven, Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and Goethe University Frankfurt The organising committee of this small, informal conference invites submissions of high[…]