Topics: - The impact of government ownership of banks on efficiency, credit and financial stability - Politics and banking - Subsidies implicit in the financial safety net, and how to eliminate them - How to cope with the too-big-to-fail and too-complex-to-fail phenomena - The fiscal costs of...

Mobility seems to have become the new paradigm for social sciences. Not only for scholars working on immigration, but social sciences in general indicate a tendency to explain social phenomena by referring to different forms of mobility. A few decades ago sedentary was the norm for social...

We invite both empirical and theoretical papers. Topics would include, but are not limited to: - the impact of new regulatory and supervisory structures on bank returns, risk, and stability, including the effects of Basel III and the Dodd-Frank Act, - the changing structure of the financial...

Over the past few decades ties between financial markets worldwide have become stronger as a result of developments in IT, the liberalization of financial markets and increased cross-border competition among financial intermediaries. The developments in the payment and securities settlement...