FINPROP

Financial Integration in Europe

and the Propagation of Shocks

 

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Dispatch

 

No. 2, September 2005

 

 

Information on Forthcoming International Conferences

 

 

November 2005

 

European Economic Integration:
Financial Development, Integration and Stability in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

 

Joint Conference of the ECB-CFS Research Network on "Capital Markets and Financial Integration in Europe" and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank in Vienna

 

14-15 November 2005, Vienna

 

Deadline for submission of papers: July 8, 2005 (expired)

http://www.ecb.int/events/conferences/html/ecbcfs_cmfi.en.html

 

 

 

 

 

December 2005

 

 

Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Money and Banking

 

12th - 13th December 2005, Cass Business School, London, UK

 

The conference will provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of research results and practical experiences across a wide range of research topics in capital markets, corporate finance, corporate governance, banking, international finance and empirical analysis of financial markets including the econometric analysis of high-frequency data, derivative trading strategies and design, risk management, European monetary policy.

Capital Markets: papers covering realised volatility, high-frequency and jump models, volatility modelling, correlation and forecasting; options markets and derivatives; mathematical and statistical methodological issues; issues in financial econometrics; foreign exchange markets and the financial markets of emerging economies.

Corporate finance: papers covering issues related to debt and equity rationing, initial public offerings, dividend policy, capital structure of firms, corporate restructuring and corporate governance.

Money and Banking: papers examining the international financial system including commercial banking, financial intermediaries, central banking and international financial policy institutions.

The conference is open to all those interested from academic and non-academic organisations. The conference will have several invited lectures and contributed sessions which will include Marie Curie Fellows who have been visiting Cass Business School. The idea is to have a suitable number of sessions to allow for a high-quality discussion between speakers and participants.

Deadline for submission of papers: 31 October 2005.

http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/conferences/mariecurie/index.html

 

 

March 2006

 

The Growth and Welfare Effects of Macroeconomic Volatility

 
17-18 March 2006, Barcelona, Spain
 
Sponsors: The World Bank and CREI 
 
Deadline for abstracts: October 31, 2005

Deadline for complete drafts: December 15, 2005 
 
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0,,contentMDK:20644315~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:469382,00.html
 

 

April 2006
 
9TH CONFERENCE OF THE SWISS SOCIETY FOR FINANCIAL MARKET RESEARCH (SGF)
 
PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL "FINANCIAL MARKETS AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT"
 
7 April, 2006, Zürich, Switzerland

 

We would like to invite both academics and practitioners to submit papers on all topic areas of financial market research by November 30, 2005.
 
http://www.ssrn.com/update/fen/fenann/ann108.html
 
 

13th Annual Global Finance Conference

26 – 28 April 2006,  Rio de Janeiro, Brarzil

 

Conference Topics

·         Accounting, Regulations, & Taxation

Papers should be submitted by  January 21, 2006.

http://www.coppead.ufrj.br/gfc/

 

 

June 2006

 
 
JOURNAL OF BANKING AND FINANCE, 30TH ANNIVERSARY
CONFERENCE: CHANGES IN THE WORLD'S FINANCIAL MARKETS
IN THE LAST 30 YEARS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
 
 6-8 June 2006,  Beijing, China
 
The Guanghua School of Management at the Peking University in cooperation with the Journal of Banking and Finance would like to invite all academics, practitioners, international organizations, business groups and policy makers to participate in an international banking and finance conference that will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Journal of Banking and Finance to be held at theUniversity of Peking, in Beijing, China on 6th, 7th and 8th of June 2006.
 
TOPIC AREAS:
The conference welcomes any paper on the topic areas on banking and finance, as listed below, for submission to this international conference, regardless of whether the authors wish their papers to be considered for either of these two special issues.
 
     1.  Asset Pricing
     2.  Banking
     3.  Capital Markets
     4.  Corporate Finance
     5.  Derivative Instruments
     6.  Finance Theory & Evidence
     7.  Financial Mathematics
     8.  Funds Management
     9.  International Finance
     10. Market Microstructure
     11. Quantitative Finance
     12. Corporate Governance
     13. Risk and Insurance
     14. The Emerging Markets
     15. Global Financial Services
     16. Further Development of the Financial Market in China
     17. Changes in the World's Financial Markets in the Last 3 Years and its Implications for the Future
     18. Others (please specify)
 
As part of this conference, a special issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance to celebrate its 30th anniversary entitled "Changes in the World's Financial Markets in the last 30 Years and its Implications for the Future", will be published. The details of this special issue will be posted on the JBF's website soon. The deadline for this special issue is 1st of March 2006.
 
The deadline for submitting papers to this conference is also 1st March 2006.
http://www.ssrn.com/update/fen/fenann/ann122.html
 

 

 

23rd Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance

 

22-23 June, 2006, Lille, France

 

 

Deadline for submission of papers: February 20, 2006

 

http://www.univ-orleans.fr/DEG/GDRecomofi/Activ/call_gdr_lille06.pdf

 

 

 

Risk Management and Regulation in Banking

 

29-30 June, 2006, Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland

 

 

 

   Topics
Deadline for submission of papers: February 27, 2006

 

http://www.olin.wustl.edu/jfi/pdf/basel.pdf

 

July 2006

 

The Fourth Annual EEFS Conference  "THE ORGANISATION, REGULATION AND PERFORMANCE OF BOND MARKETS”

6-7 July 2006, Istanbul, Turkey

 

TOPICS:
We invite empirical, theoretical, and experimental papers on all aspects of fixed-income markets. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
     - Bond market liquidity and microstructure
     - Relationship between derivatives and cash markets
     - Monetary policy, Fiscal Policy and Bond Markets
     - Corporate bond markets
     - Default risk
     - Integration of European bond markets
     - Public debt management
     - Links between inter-dealer, institutional, and retail
       markets
     - Regulation of bond markets
     - Central and Eastern European bond markets
     - Microeconomics and Corporate Governance of Exchanges and
       Trading Platforms

Deadline for submission of papers: March 15, 2006

http://www.ssrn.com/update/fen/fenann/ann154.html