The conference will explore new developments of robust econometric methods in the face of data characteristics which are typically viewed as violations of specific assumptions. The scope of the conference includes research in any field of Econometrics or Empirical Econometrics.

The conference seeks strong papers from scholars in all fields of finance. In addition to papers on traditional finance topics, they encourage the submission of papers on the financial crisis and postcrisis challenges for financial markets. The criteria used to select papers for the program...