Themes: - Computational Methods - Credit, Illiquidity, Counterparty Risk - Energy/Commodity Markets and Emissions Regulation - High Frequency Trading - Insurance and Finance - Investment and Portfolio Theory - Measures of Risk - Optimal Liquidation - Order Book Dynamics - Systemic Risk -...

Cato's 28th Annual Monetary Conference - Asset Bubbles and Monetary Policy - will address a key issue underlying the 2008 financial crisis: Did the Federal Reserve contribute to the crisis by keeping interest rates too low for too long? Would a more restrictive monetary policy have prevented the...

The November 2010 Carnegie-Rochester conference seeks to reconsider aspects of central banking theory and practice in the aftermath of the credit turmoil of 2007-9. The unprecedented reliance on monetary, credit, and interest on reserves policies in the credit turmoil raises a number of...

Following last year's success, the theme of the conference is "theory & experiments." We are delighted to announce that Dan Friedman (UC Santa Cruz) and Matthew Rabin (UC Berkeley) have agreed to be the plenary speakers: - Dan Friedman "How theory informs experiments (and vice versa)" - Matthew...

Economic theory rarely provides a parametric specification for an econometric model, but it often provides shape restrictions such as monotonicity or convexity. This conference will explore the uses of shape restrictions in identification and estimation of parametric and semiparametric...

The conference is a companion to the volume Advances in Econometrics: Missing Data Methods (Volume 27, 2011) to be published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. The focus of the conference includes the theory and application of Missing Data Methods. Possible topics include, but are not limited...

Empirical and theoretical papers and/or abstract relating to Corporate Finance, Derivatives Market and Products, Financial Institutions, Options and Futures, Stock markets, Bond Markets, Merger and Acquisition, Financial Restructuring, Money Market Dealings, Financial Modelling, Islamic Finance,...

Conference topics include theory and methods and applications across the sciences. Examples include: - Economics/Econometrics (Theory and Applications) - Finance and Risk Management - Philosophy of Science - Natural Sciences - Social Sciences

The conference organizers are soliciting submissions that address themes that include, but are not limited to, the following: - The Role of Global Financial Markets - Dynamics of International Trade, Capital Flows, and Recovery - Policy Interventions across Countries - Exchange Rate Policies,...