VIII Annual Seminar on Risk, Financial Stability and Banking

Call for Papers

August 8-9, 2013
São Paulo, Brazil

Submissions due April 30, 2013

The Banco Central do Brasil, in association with the Journal of Banking and Finance (JBF), invites the submission of papers for presentation at the VIII Annual Seminar on Risk, Financial Stability and Banking that will take place on August 8-9, 2013, in São Paulo, Brazil.

THEMES AND TOPICS:

The Banco Central do Brasil welcomes submissions related, but not limited, to the following topics:

Banking
Pricing bubbles
Global financial crisis
Post GFC banking
Asset pricing
Bank Competition
Global financial integration
Financial regulation
Governance
Capital markets
Bank portfolio management
Risk measurement
Liquidity
Market microstructure
Emerging markets finance and development
Flight to quality
Credit and Risk taking channels
Complex Networks and Systemic Risk
Extreme values
Foreign exchange
Early warning systems
DSGE modeling with financial frictions

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission open: March 25, 2013

Submission deadline: April 30, 2013

Notification of authors: June 3, 2013

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Interested authors should submit papers by April 30, 2013 to BCBConference2013@bcb.gov.br as a PDF file attachment. The subject of the e-mail should state "CBB2013". In addition, authors should provide the following information in their submission: names and affiliations of authors, e-mails, postal addresses, telephone numbers, an abstract, key words, and JEL classification codes. All correspondence will be with the specified corresponding author. There is no submission fee.

SPECIAL ISSUE in JOURNAL OF BANKING AND FINANCE:

A special issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance will include selected papers presented at the VIII Annual Seminar on Risk, Financial Stability and Banking. Authors whose papers are accepted for presentation at the seminar are encouraged, but are not obliged, to submit their papers for the JBF special issue. Papers submitted for this special issue will undergo the normal journal review process and the journal’s usual submission fee will apply.

Papers for the special issue can be submitted through JBF's portal at http://ees.elsevier.com/jbf/default.asp between August 5, 2013, and August 30, 2013.

You will need to set up an EES account if you don't have one already. On the first submission screen, please select CBB2013 as the paper type.

Please note that airfare funding is not available. All seminar participants will be responsible for their own travel arrangements. However, the Banco Central do Brasil will cover up to three nights’ hotel accommodation for one author per paper accepted for presentation at the seminar.