The organisers particularly encourage submissions of papers in the following areas: 1) Theory and Techniques - Monte Carlo simulation techniques for modelling and simulating asset returns - Use of contingent claim analysis in balance sheet risk management - Innovations in portfolio optimization...

The annual Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago International Finance Conference is designed to focus on important current international issues in banking and finance that are best analyzed by bringing together researchers and policymakers from different countries and different perspectives. The...

The conference brings together leading academics, practitioners and policy makers to discuss the European regulatory framework in light of the recent events in the credit markets and the banking system. The purpose is to get a better understanding of the future development of the European...

The objective of the conference is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household asset accumulation, debt, and consumption behavior over the life cycle. The focus of the conference is on papers based on household-level, survey data...

The submission of both theoretical and empirical papers in the following fields is especially encouraged: - Competition for order, clearing and settlement flows - Consolidation vs. fragmentation effects at the various levels along the value chain - Importance of liquidity effects - Existence and...

Topics: - Liquidity risk in global payment and settlement systems - Globalisation of financial markets and liquidity management - Systemic risk in global payments - Interdependencies in payment and settlement systems - Collateral management in global payment and settlement systems - Recent...

Session 1: The role of harmonised monetary, financial and economic statistics in monetary and other economic policies Session 2: Future directions for the collection and compilation of statistics Session 3: Future co-ordination and collaboration strategies in the area of statistics Session 4:...

Schwerpunkte des Seminars bilden - neben einem Überblick über die wichtigsten Kreditderivate und Verbriefungstechniken und deren Einsatzmöglichkeiten wie etwa im Handel und Portfoliomanagement - die detaillierte Darstellung der Konstruktionsmerkmale von Kreditderivaten sowie der Vergleich von...

Zinsänderungsrisiken stehen im Mittelpunkt bankbetrieblicher Risikocontrolling- und Risikomanagementsysteme. Für den Aufbau, die Pflege und die Nutzung dieser Systeme ist das inhaltliche und formale Verständnis der auf Kassa- und Terminmärkten gehandelten Produkte...

Das Seminar vermittelt damit grundlegendes und umfassendes Wissen über den modernen Forschungsansatz der BEHAVIORAL FINANCE. SCHWERPUNKTE DES SEMINARS sind: - die Vermittlung eines generellen Verständnisses der Methoden und Probleme des Behavioral Finance Ansatzes - Die Verdeutlichung...