The first conference day will feature keynote presentations and panels with leading scholars and practitioners. The second conference day has a standard academic format with presentations of frontier research papers, discussant comments and general discussion. For the academic part of the...

The conference will bring together leading academics with practitioners and policymakers to discuss recent research on the 21st century challenges of insurance. The first conference day will feature keynote presentations and panels with leading scholars and practitioners. The second conference...

The Financial Safety Net Conference (FSNC) is an event dedicated to some of the most topical issues in current financial policy debate. - How do we handle future financial crises? - How will the new and coming reforms in the crisis management area work? - What implications will these reforms...

Conference theme: The conference aims to bring together leading academics with financial practitioners and policymakers to discuss recent research on the financial economics of entrepreneurship and innovation.

The first conference day will feature key-note presentations by leading scholars in the field. These presentations will center around recent empirical evidence and theoretical developments on the relation between expected returns, betas, and volatility. The second conference day has a standard...

Topics: - Differences in mortgage institutions - systemic effects of real estate and liquidity spirals - real estate as an asset class - bubbles in the housing market - hedging of real estate risk - commercial vs. residential real estate - contract theory and real estate

Members and friends of the European Finance Association are welcome to submit research papers to be considered for presentation at the 2011 Annual Meetings. Papers on any topic related to finance will be considered.

Topics: - Dynamic asset allocation - Portfolio choice and liquidity - Asset pricing and liquidity - Time-varying risks and returns - Predictability in asset prices - Portfolio rebalancing and trading

For the academic part of the conference, we invite authors to submit high-quality research papers in the areas of asset pricing and corporate finance, with an emphasis on debt instruments and markets. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome.

TOPICS: - Capital markets reform - Law, institutions, and finance - Banking and financial institutions - Private equity - Capital market integration - Emerging market risks and asset returns