Call for Papers: FINANCIAL RISKS INTERNATIONAL FORUM 2008 SESSION

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                FINANCIAL RISKS INTERNATIONAL FORUM
                           2008 SESSION

             STRUCTURED PRODUCTS AND CREDIT DERIVATIVES

                      March 27th - 28th, 2008


     The Financial Risks International Forum on "Structured
     Products and Credit Derivatives" is an international
     Research Forum for academics and professionals organised by
     Finance INNOVATION:

           http://www.finance-innovation.org/index_en.htm

     We invite you to submit papers for this meeting which will
     take place in Paris on March 27th & 28th, 2008.


     PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

     An Executive Summary (two pages) or preferably a complete
     paper in PDF format must be submitted electronically by
     December 1st, 2007 using the submission form:

           http://www.finance-innovation.org/risk07

     The results of the selection procedure will be sent by mid-
     January 2008. For any inquiry, email:

     Email:       MAILTO:risk@finance-innovation.org


     OBJECTIVES:

     The forum pursues three objectives:

     - to identify the main streams of researches that will
       structure the market evolution in the future;

     - to organize presentations and debates on the content of
       these new contributions;

     - to assess with professionals the market/regulatory
       impacts of those new trends.


     TOPICS:

     - New Credit Products & Market Innovations (credit index,
       leveraged credit products, Asset Backed Securities, new
       management technics, dynamic management of CDO's, credit
       volatility management, Insurance Linked Securities)

     - Rating of Structured Products (rating models, convergence
       of interest between structuror, agent and investor,
       rating of cash and structured products)

     - Regulation (business standards, Basel II, transparency)

     - Advances in Quantitative Modelling and Risk Management
       (correlation risk, dynamic modelling, rare events,
       numerical methods, model validation)


     EXPENSES:

     Finance INNOVATION may cover travel and accommodation
     expenses for the authors of selected papers (upon request
     and only one author by paper).


     SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF THE CONFERENCE:

     - Edward ALTMAN, New York University
     - Noel AMENC, EDHEC Business School
     - Joel BESSIS, HEC Business School
     - Jean-Francois BOULIER, CAAM
     - Pierre COLLIN-DUFRESNE, Goldman Sachs Asset Management,
       New York - Haas School of Business, University of
       California, Berkeley
     - Rama CONT, Ecole Polytechnique - Columbia University
     - Michel CROUHY, IXIS CIB
     - Nicole EL KAROUI, Ecole Polytechnique
     - Christian GOURIEROUX, CREST
     - Antoine HYAFIL, HEC Business School
     - Robert JARROW, Cornell University
     - Elyes JOUINI, Paris Dauphine University
     - Jean-Michel LASRY, Calyon
     - Jean-Paul LAURENT, Institut de Science Financiere et
       d'Assurances (ISFA)
     - Hayne LELAND, Haas School of Business, University of
       California, Berkeley
     - Monique JEANBLANC, Evry University
     - Christian SAGUEZ, Ecole Centrale
     - Kenneth SINGLETON, Stanford University
     - Jean TIROLE, IDEI Toulouse
     - Fan YU, Michigan State University
Posted 10/28/07