Applied sessions on the challenges in investment banking -Marco Illy, Credit Suisse -Walter Braegger, UBS -Felix Oegerli, Zurich Cantonal Bank -Charles Murphy, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York Research sessions on recent developments in corporate governance -Marco Becht, University...

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...

We welcome papers on International Economics, Macroeconomics and Finance that address issues of relevance for emerging markets. Some topics of special interest are: - Financial crises - Financial regulation - Capital flows and their effects on emerging economies - Monetary policy in emerging...

Topics: - international cooperation versus coordination in monetary and/or fiscal policies; - regulatory frameworks for banking and financial markets: Is more the merrier? - the behavior of financial markets before, during, and following financial crises; - assessments of monetary and fiscal...

Even before the financial crisis of 2007-2009 research into the causes and consequences of financial crises was a popular field. Nevertheless, there has been far less effort devoted to exploring the connection, from an historical perspective, between financial systems and their influence on...