Since 2008, the Bank for International Settlements and the World Bank, in corporation with partner institutions, have organized this biennial conference to discuss policy issues, quantitative methods and current challenges for central banks, sovereign wealth funds and public pension plans. The...

The conference will focus on policy issues, quantitative methods and current challenges for public investors, and is intended to promote an exchange of innovative ideas among practitioners and academics, knowledge sharing and collaboration across organizations, and the development of best...

The conference is targeted at experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers (including commodity savings funds and sovereign pension funds) as well as academics. It aims to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the...

The conference is targeted at experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers (including commodity savings funds and sovereign pension funds) as well as academics. It aims to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the...

The theme of this year’s conference is “Investing in International Markets”. We invite academic paper submissions for the conference that examine the decision to invest in international markets by corporations, institutional or retail investors. As in past years, we aim to bring together a...

Topics: - Competition for order, clearing and settlement flows - Competition and interaction between OTC and exchange markets - Consolidation vs. fragmentation effects in trading, clearing and settlement - Liquidity formation and resilience in OTC and exchange markets - Implications of clearing...

Possible sessions could include, but are not limited to, the following: - International capital flows - International portfolio allocation - International portfolio diversification - Global flight to quality - Liquidity and capital flows - Investing in emerging economies - Capital market...

The conference is targeted at quantitative experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers as well as academics. It aims at facilitating an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the participating organisations, encouraging knowledge...

The goal of the conference is to bring together academics and policy makers to discuss the links between the recent crisis and financial globalization, broadly focusing on two main themes: 1) the two-way relationship between global imbalances and the crisis; 2) the impact of the crisis on the...

The aim of the conference is to shed light on all aspects of the industrial organization of securities markets. This not only includes trading but also clearing and settlement services, and both cash and derivative markets. The submission of both theoretical and empirical papers in the following...