In the past decade, Fondation Banque de France's Journées have been an annual event featuring the outcome of previous research grants. This year's harvest includes three papers on the systematic variations in expected loss and liquidity, the impact of securitization on bank lending and the cost...

The objective of the conference is to present the latest research on the determinants of the credit growth in converging economies as well as its effects and policy challenges. The conference is also intended to provide a discussion forum for distinguished academics, central bankers and...

Retail banking is feeling limited within its domestic frontiers and internationalisation is accelerating. Big, cross-frontier groups are forming in a maelstrom of acquisitions, mergers and even new creations. Men and women are at work defining these new horizons, inventing new practises and...

Topics. - Efforts to stop fires starting at all, measures to control and reduce the scale and effects of fires once started, and of their impact on human life and health. - How are the risks and uncertainties going to change in the coming years? - What is the role of insurence in the eyes of the...

The world’s non-life insurance markets face growing exposure to catastrophic risk as well as rising loss exposure from legal liability, marine, aircraft and other coverages. In response, global reinsurers have raised significant amounts of new capital; and markets have responded with the...

Topics: · Accounting Issues in Bank Management and Regulation · Asset Management · Governance Issues in Financial Firms · Mergers & Acquisitions in Banking · Risk Management in Banking · Securitization and Banking

Topics: - Recent developments in pension finance and actuarial science - Institutional design of the pension system - International dynamics in the field of pension supervision

TOPICS: Possible topics to address include, but are not limited to the following: Manager selection, performance measurement and attribution, capital flows, investor behavior, conflicts of interest between investors and fund management companies, favoritism in fund families, governance and...

For the academic conference day, we invite contributed papers from all fields of pension economics. Topics of interest are, among others, - Macroeconomic aspects of ageing and retirement; - Life cycle behaviour of individuals; - Institutional aspects and behaviour of pension funds and financial...