CfP Deadline:
November 18, 2024
Conference Event:
May 15-16, 2025
Event Location:
Washington, United States
Organizer(s):
SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA)
Lehigh University’s Center for Financial Services (CFS)
University of Virginia’s Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management (Mayo Center)
Description:
The SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA), Lehigh University’s Center for Financial Services (CFS), and University of Virginia’s Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management (Mayo Center) will jointly host the 12th Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation (CFMR 2025). The goal of the conference is to bring together participants for an exchange of views on topics of relevance to the Commission.
Two papers will be selected in each of five topic areas: asset management, corporate finance, enforcement, financial intermediation, and market microstructure and trading. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Asset Management: investment advisers, ETPs and liquidity, investment companies, hedge funds, and other institutional investors, and custody.
- Corporate Finance: corporate disclosures, initial public offerings, seasoned equity offerings, corporate mergers and acquisitions, fintech, corporate governance and voting, corporate and municipal debt offerings, and disclosures related to asset-backed securities.
- Enforcement: compliance, fraud detection, whistleblower, penalties, deterrence, measurement of damages, AAERs, manipulation, Ponzi schemes, false disclosure, and insider trading.
- Intermediaries: broker-dealers, financial institutions, analysts affiliated with broker-dealers or financial institutions, clearing agencies, central counterparties, credit ratings, and Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (NRSROs).
- Market Microstructure and Trading: the structure, transparency, fairness, efficiency, and liquidity of secondary market trading in the equity, ETP, bond, option, security-based swap, and securities lending markets.
Submission:
The deadline for paper submissions is November 18, 2024 with a submission fee of $50. Papers can be submitted through ConfTool (www.conftool.org/cfmr2025).
The selection committee will focus on high quality paper submissions whose topics directly relate to the mission of the SEC. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by the beginning of February. Travel expenses are the responsibility of the presenters, but the conference fee is waived.