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Conferences and Workshops
ULSM
Efficiency & Productivity Research Unit
Research Symposium on Banking and Finance
in collaboration with
Athens University of Economics and Business
Saturday, 19 November, 2011
Ken Edwards Building (KEB)
University of Leicester
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and Introductions
9:30 – 11:00 Session I (Venue-KEB Seminar Room 526)
Assessing Demand, Competition and Market Structure of Turkish Banking Sector through New IO Models
G. Gulsun Akin, Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Sebnem Ileri and Levent Yildiran (Bosphorus University, Turkey)
Bank rebranding and depositor loyalty
Mustafa Disli and Koen Schoors (Ghent University, Belgium)
Competition and the Lending Channel: Redefining Competition in Banking
Meryem Duygun Fethi (ULSM), Mohamed Shaban (ULSM) and Mike Tsionas (AUEB, Greece)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Session II (Venue-KEB Seminar Room 526)
Basel III Capital Charges and the incentives to develop accurate Value-at-Risk models
Adrian Rossignolo (ULSM)
Private Equity Performance under Extreme Regulation
Douglas Cumming (York University, Canada) and Simona Zambelli (University of Bologna, Italy)
Finance and growth: A counter-example from the origins of banking in Russia
Dan Berkowitz (University of Pittsburgh, US), Mark Hoefstra (Texas A&M University, US), Koen Schoors (Ghent University, Belgium)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Organised by:
Meryem Duygun Fethi and Mike Tsionas
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Forthcoming events
Banking and Finance Post-Crisis
17th June 2011
University of Leicester
Banking and Finance Post-Crisis Workshop
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EMMaPS workshop: Stochastic Models and Numerical Methods
11th May (Wed)
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Minisymposium "Computational Finance"
at
ENUMATH2011
Leicester 5th-9th September
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/mathematics/research/enumath2011/minisymposia
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IFABS 2011
International Conference on
“Financial Intermediation, Competition and Risk”
30 June - 2 July, 2011
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Ike Mathur, Southern Illinois University
Gianni De Nicolò, IMF
Robert DeYoung, University of Kansas
Anjan Thakor, Washington University in St. Louis
Following the two highly successful conferences that were organised in Leicester and Crete in 2009 and 2010, the future annual conferences will now be organised under the auspices of the new society - International Finance and Banking Society (IFABS). The 2011 International Conference will be organised by the University of Rome III, Italy between 30 June and 2 July 2011, in collaboration with the University of Leicester - School of Management, United Kingdom.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The International Finance and Banking Society are very pleased to invite you to submit papers in all areas of international banking and finance. Both theoretical and empirical papers are encouraged in areas which include, but are not limited to:
Asset pricing;
Banking;
Capital markets and investing;
Corporate governance;
Corporate finance;
Efficiency and productivity analysis;
Financial crisis;
Financial regulation;
Globalization and integration in financial services;
Insurance;
Market microstructure;
Risk management;
Securitization;
Specialised lending.
Those interested in presenting a paper at the conference are kindly invited to submit their completed paper or a detailed abstract (the more complete the paper, the better), along with your name, address, affiliation, telephone number and e-mail address, and those of any co-authors, by 1 April, 2011 to the Conference Chairs (F. Fiordelisi, M. D. Fethi, S. Monferrà) by email: ifabs2011@uniroma3.it.
SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE:
A special issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance (JBF) on the conference theme will be published under the Guest Editorship of Franco Fiordelisi, Meryem Duygun Fethi and Stefano Monferrà. Papers submitted for this special issue will undergo the normal journal review process and the journal’s usual submission fee will apply. Authors whose papers are accepted for presentation at the conference are encouraged to submit their papers for the JBF special issue. Additional details for the submission procedure will be provided later.
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE DATES:
Deadline for Paper Submission:.................................................................... 01 April 2011
Notification of Acceptance by: ..................................................................... 20 April 2011
Authors’ Registration Deadline
(for inclusion in the Conference Programme): ............................................ 09 May 2011
Early Registration Deadline: ....................................................................... 09 May 2011
Conference Dates:............................................................................ 30 June – 2 July 2011
Please see the attached Call for Papers or visit the website of the conference www.ifabs2011.uniroma3.it
for additional details on the Keynote speakers, the Scientific Committee, the Conference Location & Accommodation, Registration fees, etc.
We look forward to meeting you in Rome!
With our very best wishes,
IFABS 2011 Rome Conference Chairs:
Franco Fiordelisi, University of Rome III.
Meryem Duygun Fethi, University of Leicester,
Stefano Monferrà, University of Naples Parthenope
Past events
International Asseet Pricing June 7th 2010 Programme.
Finance Workshop, May 21st, 2009 Programme.
Spectral and Cubature Methods in Finance and Econometrics, June 18th- 20th, 2009
