A one-day conference on financial networks will be held at the Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI), University of Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday, June 10, 2011.
Interested researchers are invited to submit completed paper proposals of both theoretical and empirical nature.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Local interaction games on financial networks
- Risk-sharing and contagion within financial networks
- Analysis of banking networks
- Implications of network theory for financial markets and banking regulation
- Strategic financial network formation
- Social networks in finance
Proposals should be submitted electronically to miret.padovani@unige.ch by Friday, October 29, 2010, and should include full contact information (postal and email addresses; telephone number) and academic or institutional associations.
Notification of accepted papers will be sent out by Friday, January 21, 2011.
Travel expenses and accommodation for participants with accepted papers will be covered.
More details and updates will be made available at http://www.gfri.ch.
Scientific committee:
- Ana Babus, University of Cambridge;
- Rama Cont, Columbia University;
- Giorgio Fagiolo, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna;
- Rajna Gibson Brandon, University of Geneva;
- Markus Möbius, Harvard University;
- Didier Sornette, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology;
- Paolo Vanini, University of Zurich;
- Fernando Vega-Redondo, European University Institute.
Sponsors: The organizers of the conference gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Geneva Finance Research Institute, the National Centre of Competence in Research “Financial Valuation and Risk Management”, and the Swiss Finance Institute.
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