Call for Papers
International Risk Management Conference 2013 - Sixth Annual Meeting - Enduring Financial Stability - Contemporary Challenges for Risk Management and Governance

Sixth International Conference with a Special Issue on "Recent Developments in Risk Management and Governance"- International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance

Copenhagen, Denmark, June 24 - 25, 2013

After the fifth successful edition in Rome, the permanent organizers (University of Florence, NYU Stern Salomon Center) together with this year's Host Institution (Copenhagen Business School) invite you to join the Sixth edition of the International Risk Management Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 24-25, 2013.

The key theme of the conference is: "Enduring Financial Stability: Contemporary Challenges for Risk Management and Governance".

CONFERENCE TOPICS: The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and the IRMC 2013 Sixth annual meeting. Key Questions are the following:

Is risk management and governance sufficiently addressed by scholars and practitioners?
- How do we regulate a complex world with imperfectly informed agents that make inefficient choices?
- Is the role of the board of directors in the risk management process sufficiently clear?
- What is the appropriate solution to manage credit risk in the European markets for sovereign debt?
- Can risk management practices in banks create systematic risk?
- Are there new and better measures of systemic risk available?

Are current financial regulations adequate to achieve financial stability?
- What are the implications of the financial crisis on financial system regulations?
- Do capital adequacy requirements encourage good risk management practices?
- How do we design efficient regulatory frameworks in a non-standardized world?
- Is the current trend with increasingly complicated regulation the right way to go?
- Are the current financial and economic crises the result of imperfect information aggregation?
- Capital adequacy for banks: more equity or more structured funding?

Will the Euro survive the European recession and the sovereign bonds crisis?
- What is the impact of sovereign credit risk on banks, insurance companies and financial system stability?
- Is the growth of "shadow banks" a threat for the financial stability?
- What role does the psychology of risk play in pricing money market funds?
- Are current measures of sovereign risk adequate?

SPECIAL TOPICS:
- Challenges for banks in managing counterparty risk, funding risk and liquidity risk.
-Do financial institutions with excessively optimistic, overconfident CEOs engage in riskier financial innovation?
- How do we deal effectively with uncertainty and 'black swan' phenomena?
- What are the major strategic risks that loom in the horizon of financial institutions and corporate businesses?

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
- Edward Altman (NYU Salomon Center - Stern School of Business)
- Oliviero Roggi (University of Florence)

Host Institution Co-Chairmen:
- Torben Juul Andersen (Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategic Management and Globalization)
- Steffen Andersen (Copenhagen Business School - Department of Economics)
- Bjarne Astrup Jensen (Copenhagen Business School - Department of Finance)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: The Scientific Committee for the Conference consists of:

Chairman: Menachem Brenner (New York University - Stern)

Members:
- Viral Acharya (New York University - Stern)
- Edward Altman (New York University - Stern)
- Torben J. Andersen (Copenhagen Business School)
- Steffen Andersen (Copenhagen Business School)
- Bjarne Astrup Jensen (Copenhagen Business School)
- Annarita Bacinello (University of Trieste)
- Giorgio Bertinetti (University of Venice)
- Marco Bigelli (University of Bologna)
- Zvi Bodie (Boston University)
- Lorenzo Caprio (University Cattolica)
- Ada Carlesi (University of Pisa)
- Alessandro Carretta (University of Rome - Tor Vergata)
- Maurizio Dallocchio (Bocconi University)
- Riccardo De Lisa (University of Cagliari)
- Maurizio Fanni (University of Trieste)
- Gabriele Fiorentini (University of Florence)
- Franco Fiordelisi (University of Rome Tre)
- Marcello Galeotti (University of Florence)
- Elisa Luciano (University of Turin)
- Mario Massari (Bocconi University)
- Giovanni Palomba (University of Rome La Sapienza)
- Paolo Paruolo (University of Insubria)
- Loriana Pellizzon (University of Venice)
- Herbert Rijken (VU of Amsterdam)
- Andrea Resti (Bocconi University)
- Oliviero Roggi (University of Florence)
- Francesco Saita (Bocconi University)
- Win Schoutens (Catholic University of Leuven)
- Anthony Saunders (New York University - Stern)
- Marti Subrahmanyam (New York University - Stern)
- William Ziemba (University of British Columbia)

CONFERENCE SUBMISSION:
FULL PAPER OR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Complete papers (for conference parallel sessions) or abstracts (for poster session only) can be submitted directly to the Conference Coordinators at info@irmc.eu

The conference deadline for both full papers and abstracts submissions is March 31, 2013. A maximum two papers per person can be submitted to the Scientific Committee.

The Scientific Committee will communicate to candidates the results of the peer review and the list of accepted papers by April 17th, 2013.

IJBAAF SUBMISSION: All authors presenting at the conference are offered the opportunity to submit their paper to the International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance (IJBAAF) for potential publication in a special issue Guest Edited by Torben Juul Andersen (CBS), Bjarne Astrup Jensen (CBS), Oliviero Roggi (UNIFI) in collaboration with the IJBAAF Associate Editor Edward Altman (NYU Stern). The papers will be refereed following the normal practices of the Journal. They should be submitted directly to the IJBAAF at the following link: http://www.inderscience.com/ijbaaf

The deadline for submission to IJBAAF is August 25, 2013.

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More detailed information will be available shortly on the Conference website: http://www.irmc.eu