The Symposium brings together academicians and practitioners with interests in banking, finance and monetary economics and provides a forum for presenting and discussing original research in banking economics and related topics. Research papers in all areas of banking, finance and monetary...

Papers in all areas of finance dealing with developed and developing countries are welcome. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: International Asset Market Structures; Financial Regulation and Liberalization; Financial Bubbles; Microstructure of Developed and Emerging Markets for all...

The question of embeddedness has been recently raised to become one of the widely discussed issues of various contemporary social sciences. Embeddedness can be broadly understood as the degree to which individuals or organizations (firms, groups) are enmeshed and entangled in a given social...

Topics: - Exchange rates and Exchange Rates Regimes - Commodities Markets and Prices - Econometrics of Financial Markets - Financial, Monetary Integration

Topics: all areas of finance (asset pricing, banking, behavioural finance, corporate finance, corporate governance, derivatives, emerging markets, financial institutions, finance theory, market microstructure, mathematical finance, financial econometrics, real estate finance and other papers of...

Preliminary program: - Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley “An Institutional Theory of Momentum & Reversal” - Catherine Casamatta and Sébastien Pouget “Fund Managers’ Contracts and Short Termism” - Jamie McAndrews, Jérome Mathis, Jean-Charles Rochet “Rating the raters” - Informal...

Using terminology from insurance and finance the organizers would like to concentrate on the following aspects: - Risk sensitive portfolio - Risk measures and management - Ruin probability and operational risk - Volatility risk - Default risk - Crash modelling - Innovative financial...

Papers can be on any topic in Economics, Finance or Management Science as related to risk and insurance.

Mini Courses: - Levy Processes and Application in Finance (Rama Cont and Monique Jeanblanc) - Random Matrices and Correlations in Large Financial Markets (Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Noureddine El Karoui)

Two topics will be emphasized for this 2008 edition of the French Finance Association Annual Congress: financial intermediation and mergers and acquisitions. Priority will be given to papers submitted in these areas. A special workshop will also be organized on May 20pm dedicated to PhD...