Topics: - Foreign banks, privatization, domestic mergers and the structure of the banking sector - Assessing banks' financial performance and risks in emerging economies - Competition, efficiency and stability of the banking sector - Banks and the rest of the financial industry in emerging...

Topics: - Anatomy of a credit crunch: how does it start, how does it end? - The macroeconomics of financial market liquidity - The interaction of balance sheet constraints and the macroeconomy - The conduct and operation of monetary policy in a credit crunch - Modelling credit crunches and...

The conference aims at bringing together scholars to present and discuss the latest research on innovation and intellectual property in financial markets and financial services sectors, including payment media, securities markets infrastructure, and corporate finance. Areas of interest include,...