Decentralized Finance (DEFI) is changing the financial landscape. What are the consequences on market infrastructures, financial actors, the transmission of monetary policy? Does the concept of "Commons" introduced by Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, offer a relevant...

The four days conference consists of seven programs and each program will meet for three sessions. Three papers will be presented for each session with assigned discussants and time for open discussion. Topics: International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking; Corporate Finance; Investment...

The conference covers all economic and financial aspects of crypto investment, including the pronounced rise in 2021 of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as cryptocurrency and blockchain derived assets. Of particular interest, are strategic perspectives, investment performance perspectives, as well as...

The aim of the workshop is to examine recent patterns of social mobility, as well as their causes and consequences. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers on these issues. Topics of interest include (but not exclusively): - social mobility and income and wealth inequality, - taxation...

This event allows both scholars and finance professionals alike to exchange and confront innovative and thought-provoking ideas about financial market dynamics and nonlinear econometrics. This event will take place on face to face or online according to the evolution of the pandemic situation!

Topics: International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking Sessions, Corporate Finance; Investment Finance; Trade, Growth and Development; Accounting; Real Estate and Urban Economics. We encourage submissions from researchers early in their career, and from researchers who are not affiliated with ABFER.

The workshop organizers invite researchers to submit papers covering issues in all areas linking finance and politics. Topics: Political economy of banking; Electoral cycles and banks’ behavior; Political systems and financial crises; Political connections of firms; Political uncertainty and...

This event has been cancelled.

Papers can in particular address the following issues about Emerging Countries: - Bank lending and financial instability - Foreign exchange and derivatives markets - Monetary policy - Exchange rate management - Debt denomination - Renminbi internationalization - Capital flows, capital control,...

Topics: Hedge fund risks and performance; transparency (reporting) and due diligence; hedge fund activity and broad macroeconomic issues such as systemic risk and contagion; hedge fund activism; portfolio liquidation and liquidity; financial regulation; mutual funds, private equity funds; etc.