4th Endless Summer Conference on Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance

CfP Deadline Date: April 30, 2022 Conference Event: August 30-31, 2022 Event Location: Glyfada, Athens. Greece Organizer(s): Centre for Economic Policy Research, Cyprus University of Technology, Durham University Business School, Fordham University, KU Leuven, Montpellier Business School, University of Essex, University of Zurich, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development The organizing and program[…]

2022 Cornell University ESG Investing Research Conference

CfP Deadline Date: March 31, 2022 Conference Event: July 20-22, 2022 Event Location: Ithaca, NY, USA Organizer(s): Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business is pleased to announce the 2022 Conference on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing on 20-22 of July, 2022. The conference will take place[…]

3rd Annual Boca Corporate Finance and Governance Conference

CfP Deadline Date: August 15, 2022 Conference Event: December 10-11, 2022 Event Location: Boca Raton, Florida, USA and virtually Keynote speaker(s): Jonathan Karpoff (Foster School of Business, University of Washington) Organizer(s): Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Florida Atlantic University There are many forms of corporate misconduct, including bribery, financial restatements and options backdating,[…]

8th FIN-FIRE Workshop on “Challenges to Financial Stability”

CfP Deadline Date: April 24, 2022 Conference Event: August 29-30, 2022 Event Location: Halle (Saale), Germany Keynote speaker(s): Gordon Phillips (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth) Organizer(s): Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association is organising aworkshop on “Challenges to Financial Stability” on[…]

BIS Working Paper – Global dollar credit and carry trades: a firm-level analysis

Author(s): Valentina Bruno and Hyun Song Shin Date: August 2015 Abstract: We conduct a firm-level analysis of borrowing in US dollars by non-financial corporatesfrom outside the United States. The dataset combines bond issuance data with firm-levelfinancial information. We find that firms with already high cash holdings are more likelyto issue US dollar-denominated bonds, and that[…]

The Oxford Saïd and Risk Center at ETH Zürich Macro-finance Conference 2022 – Money, Liquidity, and Financial Stability

CfP Deadline Date: May 6, 2022 Conference Event: September 2-3, 2022 Event Location: Oxford, UK Keynote speaker(s): Herakles Polemarchakis (University of Warwick)  Organizer(s): Risk Center at ETH Zürich and Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford The Risk Center at ETH Zürich and Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford jointly invite submissions[…]

Workshop on Banking and Institutions

CfP Deadline Date: March 20, 2022 Conference Event: August 22-23, 2022 Event Location: Helsinki, Finland Keynote speaker(s): Allen N. Berger (University of South Carolina) Steven Ongena (University of Zurich) Organizer(s): LaRGE Research Center (University of Strasbourg), Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT), and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University (New York) The Workshop[…]

6th Edition: Workshop on A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union

CfP Deadline Date: February 28, 2022 Conference Event: June 15-16, 2022 Event Location: Barcelona, Spain Keynote speaker(s): James Bullard (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, President) Jennifer La’O (Columbia University) Organizer(s): Barcelona School of Economics, Pierre Werner Chair (RSCAS, EUI), European Stability Mechanism and Central Bank of Ireland. The Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) organizes[…]

IMF Working Paper: Behind the Scenes of Central Bank Digital Currency

Author(s): Gabriel Soderberg, Marianne Bechara, Wouter Bossu, Natasha X Che, John Kiff, Inutu Lukonga, Tommaso Mancini Griffoli, Tao Sun, and Akihiro Yoshinaga Date: February 2022 Abstract: Central banks are increasingly pondering whether to issue their own digital currencies to the general public, so-called retail central bank digital currency (CBDC). The majority of IMF member countries[…]

February 2022: New World Bank Blog Post – The rise of digital financial inclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic

By Leora Klapper, and Yira Mascaró When COVID-19 hit, governments rushed to provide financial relief to citizens, often using digital channels to do so. At the same time, social distancing forced people to find alternatives to cash and face-to-face shopping. These shifts fueled speculation that the pandemic would create an overall rise in digital financial[…]