CALL FOR PAPERS


                             20TH ANNUAL
        DERIVATIVES SECURITIES AND RISK MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE


                          April 9-10, 2010


                      Jointly organized by the
                FDIC's Center for Financial Research
           Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of
                           Management and
        The University of Houston's Bauer College of Business



     The conference organizers invite submission of research
     papers for the 20th Annual Derivatives and Risk Management
     Conference. The conference will be held at the FDIC's
     facilities located in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday April
     9 and Saturday April 10, 2010. The organizing committee,
     Professor Robert Jarrow, Professor Stuart Turnbull, and
     Paul Kupiec will select the papers for the conference
     agenda.



     TOPICS:


     Past conferences have featured presentation of exceptional
     quality research in all areas of derivatives pricing,
     market and credit risk measurement, computational methods,
     and advances in financial engineering. The 2009 conference
     agenda can be viewed at:


       http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/CFR/19thagenda.html



     FUNDING:


     The FDIC will reimburse author's lodging expenses at the
     FDIC's Seidman Center. The FDIC also has a limited budget
     available to help defray travel expenses for authors in
     need of funding.



     PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:


     Please submit an electronic copy of the paper in PDF format
     to the FDIC's Center for Financial Research at:


     Email:         MAILTO:DerivativesConference@fdic.gov


     by February 6, 2010.


     Please remember to include contact information on the cover
     page for the corresponding author.


     Please title the PDF file using the corresponding author's
     last name as the leading word in the title. For example:
     Smith_paper.pdf


     Authors will be notified about the status of their papers
     by March 3, 2010.



     FURTHER INFORMATION:


     Further inquiries please contact:


     CONTACT:       Paul Kupiec
     Email:         MAILTO:pkupiec@fdic.gov


     CONTACT:       Robert Jarrow
     Email:         MAILTO:raj15@cornell.edu
               or
     CONTACT:       Stuart Turnbull
     Email:         MAILTO:sturnbull@uh.edu




Posted 10/30/09