The financial crisis and the European debt crisis in the euro have increased the interest in the early detection of financial constraints, as credit crunches affect investment decisions of firms and saving decisions of households. Economic tendency surveys and surveys in general are one...

Jan Mossin (1936-1987) made several important contributions to modern finance. Most important is his work on the CAPM in his Econometrica article from 1966: Equilibrium in a Capital Asset Market. Another important contribution, central to the topic of the conference, is his Journal of Business...