Call for Papers: FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES AND MARKETS AT THE CROSS ROADS: ECONOMIC AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON FINANCIAL STABILITY, LIQUIDITY AND CORPORATE CONTROL

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

       FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES AND MARKETS AT THE CROSS ROADS:
        ECONOMIC AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON FINANCIAL STABILITY,
                   LIQUIDITY AND CORPORATE CONTROL

                   Amsterdam, September 26-27, 2008


     The University of Amsterdam, York University and ECGI
     organize in collaboration with the Review of Finance (RoF)
     the symposium, "Financial Intermediaries and Markets at the
     Cross Roads: Economic and Legal Perspectives on Financial
     Stability, Liquidity and Corporate Control".


     CONFERENCE TOPIC:

     As recent events show, the financial sector is becoming
     more complex and hence more opaque. In many respects, the
     financial landscape is in flux. Financial intermediaries
     and markets are increasingly intertwined - developments in
     securitization are just one example. Financial institutions
     themselves are also becoming more and more diverse. The
     financial sector has evolved from a more bank-centered
     world of financial intermediation to one that includes all
     kinds of more specialized financial institutions, including
     hedge funds and private equity firms. The center of gravity
     has shifted, and these developments raise important
     questions regarding:

     - The stability of the financial sector;
     - The organization of supervision and other regulatory
       issues, including the role of credit rating agencies (and
       other gatekeepers);
     - The interaction between the financial sector and the real
       economy;
     - The role of financial intermediaries in the funding of
       corporations;
     - Corporate control implications (e.g. role sovereign
       wealth funds).

     The conference invites papers on regulatory questions
     (including liquidity, stability, etc.), the economics of
     financial intermediation (including the repositioning of
     intermediaries and securitization), and corporate finance
     and control issues linked to the (re)positioning of
     financial intermediaries.


     PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

     The organizers are Arnoud Boot and Joe McCahery at the
     University of Amsterdam and Douglas Cumming of York
     University. The Program Committee consists of Lucian
     Bebchuk (Harvard University), Patrick Bolton (Columbia
     University), Nick Bollen (Vanderbilt University), Alon Brav
     (Duke University), Stijn Claessens (IMF & University of
     Amsterdam), Bill Fung (London Business School), David Hsieh
     (Duke University), Bing Liang (University of Massachusetts
     at Amherst), Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes (University of
     Amsterdam), Nadia Massoud (York University), Marco Pagano
     (University of Naples Federico II), Enrico Perotti
     (University of Amsterdam), Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden
     (University of Mannheim), Anjan Thakor (Washington
     University), Josef Zechner (University of Vienna).

     Sponsors include the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics
     (ACLE), ACCF, ECGI, and the Schulich School of Business at
     York University (Canada).


     CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEADLINE:

     Papers should be submitted electronically. Submissions for
     inclusion in the program may be sent - with electronic and
     regular author's address information - by APRIL 10, 2008,
     to:
     Email:       MAILTO:ACLE@uva.nl

     Please indicate: 'Submission for RoF-Amsterdam-2008'. Along
     with your submission, please indicate whether you would
     like your paper to be considered for publication in the
     RoF. Submitting to the conference does not require
     submitting to the journal.
Posted 2/29/08