The 31st AFBC conference will include a PhD Forum for advanced Finance Doctoral Students who are currently working on their dissertation. The one-day forum will offer accepted students the unique opportunity to present their research and have their work discussed by distinguished academics from...

Workshop Programme: - Negative monetary policy rates and systemic banks’ risk-taking: evidence from the euro area administrative securities register, - Credit risk under IFRS 9 accounting reforms: an application to Irish mortgages, - Estimating probability of default for the household sector...

Topics: - operational issues related to the implementation of micro- and macroprudential regulation, - challenges for banking supervision in an environment of low interest rates, including business models, credit risk (with a focus on NPLs and concentration) and risk management, - linkages...

Topics relating to money markets: - The functioning of the transmission mechanism and optimal design of the monetary policy implementation framework in the new market environment - The impact of market fragmentation on monetary policy implementation; empirical studies on segmentation in the euro...

Submissions are welcome in all topics about money markets, and in particular on issues related to the following themes: - Empirical analysis of money markets (for both secured and unsecured segments at different maturities) with an emphasis on structural changes; approaches using payment systems...

The organisers welcome submissions of theoretical and empirical papers from economists and researchers – in academia, central banks or financial institutions – covering one or several of the following themes: - Recent as well as trend developments in euro area markets for banks’ debt...

Topics: - Economic concepts - The role of central banks in payment and settlement systems - Card schemes and card payments - The Eurosystem oversight policy framework for payments and securities Parallel sessions: - The Eurosystem retail payments oversight - Issues in network services for market...

The topics to be discussed are related, but are not necessarily limited to, the following questions: - How effective have monetary policy measures been in the recent and past crises? What is the relationship between interest rate and balance sheet policies of central banks? How does the...