Call for Papers
7th Swiss Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation

CEPR - UZH - UNISG - RoF Conference

February 23-26, 2014, Lenzerheide, Switzerland

Deadline: November 1, 2013

Centre for Economic Policy Research
University of Zurich
University of St. Gallen
Review of Finance

The organising committee of this small, informal conference invites submissions of high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please email your paper to meets@cepr.org mentioning in the subject line "Swiss Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation" by November 1, 2013. Authors will be notified about the acceptance of papers and the conference program by December 6, 2013. There is no conference fee and there are no accommodation costs, but participants must cover their own travel costs.

FURTHER INFORMATION: The conference will be held at the Hotel Schweizerhof in the mountain resort of Lenzerheide, Switzerland (http://www.schweizerhof-lenzerheide.ch). The academic programme starts Monday morning (February 24) at 08:00 and ends Wednesday (February 26) before noon. Due to capacity constraints, preference will be given to participants who can stay for the whole duration of the conference. Participants should plan to arrive Sunday afternoon and leave Wednesday afternoon. There will be around ten papers and discussions, leaving ample time for reflection and outdoor activities. The Universities of Zurich and St. Gallen will cover the accommodation costs and meals during the conference. The submission fee for the Review of Finance will be waived for all conference papers submitted to the Review within six months after the conference takes place.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Franklin Allen (University of Pennsylvania & NBER)
Arnoud Boot (University of Amsterdam & CEPR)
Martin Brown (University of St. Gallen)
Hans Degryse (KU Leuven, Tilburg University & CEPR)
Giovanni Dell'Ariccia (IMF & CEPR)
Andrew Ellul (Indiana University)
Vasso Ioannidou (Lancaster University)
Charles Kahn (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Steven Ongena (University of Zurich & CEPR)
Jose-Louis Peydro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra & CEPR)
Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Zurich & CEPR)
Greg Udell (Indiana University)
Vikrant Vig (London Business School)
Lucy White (Harvard Business School and CEPR)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Martin Brown (University of St. Gallen)
Steven Ongena (University of Zurich & CEPR)

Details about the sponsors:
- CEPR http://www.cepr.org
- University of Zurich http://www.bf.uzh.ch/cms/home/home_182_668.html?lang=en
- University of St. Gallen http://www.sbf.unisg.ch/en?sc_lang=de
- Review of Finance http://www.revfin.org

A conference website will be created with all papers and necessary information.

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CONFERENCE: Liam Brunt and Lucy White chaired the first edition of this Conference in Hotel Suisse in Champery, Switzerland, home of the daunting "Le Pas de Chavanette", also known as the "Mur Suisse" or the "Swiss Wall". Later editions were organized and administered by Martin Brown, Hans Degryse and/or Steven Ongena in the Conference Center of the Swiss National Bank in Hasliberg and in the Hotel Schweizerhof in Lenzerheide. Both snow and sun were always plentiful.

ANOTHER CONFERENCE OF POSSIBLE INTEREST: The European Winter Finance Summit organized by the Universities of Zurich and Vienna will take place on March 16-19, 2014, in Zermatt, Switzerland (http://www.skinance.com).