Topics: a. Mark to market accounting b. Opacity of banks’ assets c. The role of credit rating agencies d. Corporate governance, risk taking and disclosure e. Disclosure regulation f. Market discipline and its role during the banking crisis

The topic of the 13th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘Financial Supervision in an Uncertain World’. The recent turmoil on global financial markets and the following recession have raised concerns that the current financial supervisory system does not suffice anymore. This can mainly be...

We are inviting submissions for research papers on the governance role of financial institutions, and more generally on comparative corporate governance issues. The goal is a highly interactive workshop, involving a small group of top researchers in the fields of governance, corporate finance,...