Call for Papers
Conference on "Liquidity and Financial Crises"

October 11 - 12, 2013, Philadelphia PA

University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, Financial Institutions Center

Following the success of last year's conference, the Financial Institutions Center of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is organizing the second conference on "Liquidity and Financial Crises". The conference will take place on the University of Pennsylvania Campus (Philadelphia PA) starting on the morning of Friday, October 11, 2013 and ending in the afternoon of Saturday October 12, 2013. There will also be a reception and dinner on Friday evening. Details of last year's program are available here: http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/Program%20Conference%20Wharton.pdf. We plan to follow a similar format this year.

TOPICS: We invite submissions of empirical and theoretical papers in various fields of economics and finance that touch upon the broad theme of Liquidity and Financial Crises. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Coordination failures, self-fulfilling beliefs, and runs
- Financial frictions and the macro economy
- Liquidity and frictions in financial markets
- Systemic risk and financial regulation
- Financial institutions, networks, and contagion
- Sovereign debt crises and their link to the financial sector
- The impact of crises and fragility on firms' financing and investment policies

ORGANIZERS: The organizers of the conference are Franklin Allen (Wharton Finance), Itay Goldstein (Wharton Finance), and Guillermo Ordonez (Penn Economics).

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please send submissions to liquidwharton2013@wharton.upenn.edu by July 1, 2013. Authors will be notified by August 1, 2013 about the selection of papers.