FIRN Banking and Financial Stability Meeting
9-10 September 2024
Meeting Hosted by ANU
The Banking and Financial Stability Meeting receives submissions of empirical and theoretical papers spanning the fields of finance, economics, accounting and politics that touch on the broad theme of Banking and Financial Stability. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Bank risk taking incentives; bank competition; bank ownership; governance, systemic risk and financial regulation; political economy of regulation; government intervention in financial markets; coordination failures, self-fulfilling beliefs, and runs; financial institutions, networks, and contagion; credit markets; household finance; and information disclosure, market discipline; financial crises and fragility on firms’ financing and investment policies; FinTech and implications for stability; and the impact of Covid-19 on banks and financial fragility.
The principal objectives of the meeting are to stimulate policy relevant research in economic science and to generate greater understanding by academic economists of practitioner’s environments and vice versa.
The banking and financial stability research intensive meeting was introduced onto the FIRN program in 2015.
Due to its popularity, particularly with policymakers and industry, it now forms part of FIRN’s annual program of intensive research meetings. These meetings are designed to extend the body of knowledge within a specific research area via the presentation of cutting edge research from international guests and the building of stronger research networks across academia and industry.
The meeting format is generally held over 2 days and has a strong emphasis on building upon quality research particularly policy influencing research. The program includes a keynote presentation by an internationally renowned researcher plus several paper presentations and discussions by FIRN members selected via a call for papers. These meetings are not open to PhD students.
We invite submissions of empirical and theoretical papers spanning the fields of finance, economics, accounting and politics that touch on the broad theme of Banking and Financial Stability. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Bank risk taking incentives; bank competition; bank ownership; governance, systemic risk and financial regulation; political economy of regulation; government intervention in financial markets; coordination failures, self-fulfilling beliefs, and runs; financial institutions, networks, and contagion; credit markets; household finance; information disclosure and market discipline; financial crises and fragility on firms’ financing and investment policies; Shadow banks, FinTech and implications for stability; and the impact of climate risks on banks and financial fragility.
The call for papers is now closed. Thank you to everyone that has submitted a paper.
Allen N. Berger is H. Montague Osteen, Jr., Professor in Banking and Finance, Carolina Distinguished Professor, Co-Founder/Co-Director of the Center for Financial Institutions (CFI) at the Darla Moore School of Business. He has 131 publications in refereed research journals, including at least one in each of the last 36 of 37 years from 1987 to 2023, 12 lead articles (4 competitive, 8 in special issues), with articles in top finance journals, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Banking and
Finance, and Journal of Corporate Finance; top economics journals, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; and other top professional business journals, Management Science, Journal of Business, and European Journal of Operational Research. Professor Berger’s research impact registers over 98,000 Google Scholar citations, including 33 articles with over 1,000 citations each, and an additional 17 exceeding 500 each, and an H-Index of 108.