Posted 5/4/09
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE ON FINANCIAL MARKET STABILITY
Financial Markets Department, Bank of Canada
and
Finance Area, Faculty of Business Administration
Simon Fraser University
July 24 and 25, 2009
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Financial Markets Department of the Bank of Canada and
the Finance Area of the Faculty of Business Administration,
Simon Fraser University will host a joint conference on
Financial Market Stability to be held at the downtown
Vancouver campus of Simon Fraser University on July 24 and
25, 2009. This conference will provide an opportunity for
researchers from academia and central banks to discuss a
wide range of theoretical and empirical issues regarding
recent problems with financial market stability.
TOPICS:
Potential research topics include, but are not limited to:
leverage in financial markets; asymmetric information;
governance and regulatory problems; modeling contagion
(volatility spillovers, etc.); issues in real estate
markets; risk management (especially including problems
with credit risk management); and, international linkages
in stressful times.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Anyone interested in presenting research at this conference
should send a draft of their paper or a detailed abstract
in electronic form to:
CONTACT: Greg Bauer
Email: MAILTO:gbauer@bankofcanada.ca
and
CONTACT: Peter Klein
Email: MAILTO:pklein@sfu.ca
by May 22, 2009. The authors of accepted papers will be
notified by the end of May, 2009. The Bank of Canada will
cover reasonable travel expenses for the author presenting
the research and for discussants.
PARTICIPATION:
The Bank invites interested academics and practitioners to
attend the workshop and to be discussants. There is no fee
for participation, but non-presenting and non-discussing
participants will be responsible for their own expenses. If
you are interested in attending, please send an e-mail to:
CONTACT: Greg Bauer
Email: MAILTO:gbauer@bankofcanada.ca
no later than June 1, 2009.