This symposium will bring together researchers from Europe and the Asia-Pacific interested in any area of financial economics. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome.

Contributions from any academic discipline or theoretical approach that address the challenges and dynamics of the economic, political, legal and social institutions of our time are welcome. Submissions on other aspects of institutional research are also welcome, with preference to those that...

Programme: - Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit. By Kenneth Kuttner and Ilhyock Shim* (BIS) - Rental Rate under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real-Options Approach. By Honglin Wang* (HKIMR), Fan Yu (CMC and SAIF) and...

The AFA Meeting represents an important opportunity for academics and practitioners to discuss and analyse key research, market and product developments in the Asian financial services arena. The Meeting venue of Hong Kong, for the 2007 event, provides an ideal forum for the assessment of both...