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This two-day course by top finance professors of the University of Amsterdam covers the economic foundations for financial regulation and prudential policy, offering a guide on the evolving microprudential legislation and macroprudential policy targeting structural vulnerabilities associated with modern intermediation channels.

The course illustrates the insights underlying the novel approach by bank regulators and central banks since the financial crisis of 2007-2008. It covers the novel Basel III and FSB legislation on capital requirements and liquidity risk for banks and shadow banks. The philosophy of countercyclical policy based on explicit models of risk incentives resonates throughout the course.

We will be running a two-day conference on empirical management, focused on exploring recent empirical research on measuring and exploring management and organisational practices. 

The conference takes place at MIT on December 7-8, 2016.

Attendees are expected to attend the full conference. If for any reason you cannot attend the full conference please note this in your submission.

Please send papers to Emily Manning ([email protected]) by September 1, 2016. Accepted papers will be notified by end of September.

The global financial crisis has had a profound impact on output and productivity in advanced and emerging economies. In response, policymakers around the world have acted boldly with monetary policy, macro-prudential policy and regulation.

Is productivity being held back by financial factors - such as the lack of long term finance for long term investment - or is productivity being held back by real economy factors, such as globalisation and demographics? The recent crisis has also spurred a reassessment of the relationship between the level (and type) of finance and growth. Could weak productivity growth owe in part to wasteful investment spending or an undersupply of financial services? How does the mix of early and late stage financing drive investment and productivity? This conference aims to bring together perspectives on these big questions, as they will provide important guidance for future policy actions.

The conference focuses on all aspects of firm level decisions and firm level developments as they impact upon labor market outcomes in industrialized countries.
We invite empirical and theoretical contributions on this topic from all areas of economics, management research, and sociology.

Keynote speakers: Sandra Black (University of Texas at Austin), Roberto Fernandez (MIT) and Michael Waldman (Cornell University)

Participation: Please submit full papers (or preliminary versions) in PDF to Arne Jonas Warnke via e-mail: [email protected] Travel and accommodation costs will be reimbursed for speakers.

Deadline for paper submission: December 4, 2016

The conference is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG, as part of the Priority Programme SPP 1764), by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, and by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn.

The sixth edition of the MoFiR workshop on banking will be held in London on June 15-16, 2017. It is organized by the Money and Finance Research group (MoFiR) together with the Bank of England and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and sponsored by the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis (Imperial College Business School); the Department of Economics and Social Sciences of the Università Politecnica delle Marche; and the Review of Finance.

The organizing committee of this small informal workshop invites submissions of high-quality theoretical and empirical research on financial intermediation in both advanced economies and emerging markets.

The keynote speakers will be Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics) and Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago Booth School of Business).

A special issue of the Review of Finance will be published under the editorship of Andrew Ellul.