Financial services customers are using more and more channels – such as call centres, online banking etc. This trend looks permanent, but must be managed carefully and efficiently, as the cost of using more channels continues to grow. This year’s Efma Congress will therefore look at the...

Topics: - Anatomy of a credit crunch: how does it start, how does it end? - The macroeconomics of financial market liquidity - The interaction of balance sheet constraints and the macroeconomy - The conduct and operation of monetary policy in a credit crunch - Modelling credit crunches and...

Topics: • Chinese stock markets and stock price dynamics, including herding, noise trading, speculative bubbles and other anomalies; • financial markets’ behavior and their implications for monetary policy and regulatory frameworks; • models and empirical evidence that explore the...

Conference topics: A. Heterodox Approaches of Sustainable Development B. International institutions and sustainable development C. Social sustainability : content and relevance D. Considering the environmental dimension

Topics: • Housing market developments across the world: causes and links • House prices: bubbles versus fundamentally driven changes • The role of financial institutions and financial innovation in housing market developments • The role of fiscal, monetary, regulatory, and structural...

The purpose of the workshop is to survey some recent developments in non-semimartingales like fractional Brownian motion in stochastic finance. The use of non-semimartingales is partially motivated by pricing models with transaction costs, or pricing non-tradeable assets, like electricity. The...

Session I. - Volatility in Equilibrium: Asymmetries and Dynamic Dependencies - Inference on Sets in Finance - How Useful are No-Arbitrage Restrictions for Forecasting the Term Structure of Interest Rates? Session II. - High Frequency Statistics with Irregularly Spaced Observations - Dissecting...

The Symposium will focus on Risk Management in Financial Institutions Issues. Topics suitable for Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: . Market, credit, operational, liquidity and integrated risk management, Investment management and hedge fund risk, Energy and commodity...

We invite submission of empirical, theoretical and experimental papers on investment banking, market microstructure and asset pricing. We particularly welcome papers on: . Algorithmic trading . Competition between trading platforms . Liquidity . Post-trading . Security design and origination

Draft agenda: Session I - Roundtable on Competition Policy, Industrial Policy and National Champions Session II - Competition Policy and The Informal Economy Session III - Challenges Faced by Young Competition Authorities Session IV - Other Business Session V - The Role of Competition...