Business – Science – Government Partnership: Challenges for financial markets

Scientific conference

April 17-18-19, 2013

Organized by

International Business School at Vilnius University

EuroMed Research Business Institute

Kozminski University

Conference WEB page

The global financial crisis of 2008 and the economic turmoil it created in the years following have forced a transformation in fundamental business models, beginning with the evaporation of almost entire industry sectors, e.g. investment banking, derivative market, mortgage banking shrink-down and etc. The 2008-2009 global crisis was not only a financial calamity, but also a major ethical disaster.

The aim of the Conference is to provide a grammar for dissecting the financial crisis as well as to examine reform proposals aimed at creating a more secure and stable financial system.

The Conference will provide an overview of the unfolding crisis, its devastation of the world economy; will give plenty of recommendations to investors, institutions, regulators, banks and scientists to act in a concerted way to prevent such crises in the future; will provide an opportunity for scientists, managers and professionals from around the world to sum up the achievements and to highlight the problems as well as to once again discuss cutting edge research. Such a Conference would be an excellent opportunity to meet colleagues, to exchange knowledge and experience, and to extend list of contacts. In addition to key note speeches and conference presentations, science, business and government representatives will cross-fertilize their views in round table discussions and workshops.

KEY SPEAKERS:

Dr. KUI WAI LI, Associate Professor, Department of economics and Finance College of Business City University at Hong Kong

Dr. Kui-Wai Li lectures on the Asia Pacific economies, including the China economy and specializes in the areas of financial and economic development, industry and trade, political economy and globalization. His research focuses on China, Asian economies including Hong Kong, financial crisis and globalization. He has published a number of referee articles and has contributed chapters to edited books. He is the author of "Economic Freedom: Lessons of Hong Kong" (World Scientific, 2012).

Dr. LI Kui Wai will address the main conference theme in a keynote titled:   „A Monetary Approach to Analyzing the 2008 Financial Crisis".

Dr. IFTEKHAR HASAN, Professor of Finance & Corrigan Chair in International Business & Finance

Iftekhar Hasan is the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in International Business and Finance at Fordham University's Schools of Business and co-director of the Center for Research in Contemporary Finance. Professor Hasan serves as the scientific advisor at the Central Bank of Finland and as president of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society. He is the managing editor of the Journal of Financial Stability.

Dr. Iftekhar Hasan will address the main conference theme in a keynote titled:  "Financial Contracts: Bank versus Bank".

ESTHER BRAENDLI, Regional Audit Director Europe (EU countries and Switzerland) at Zurich Insurance Group

Esther Brändli has substantial proffesional  experience in the fields of insurance and audit. She joined Zurich Insurance Group in 2006 as CFO of the Group Reinsurance Division before she became Regional Audit Director Europe in 2010. Previously, she worked for Partner Re  (2003-2005) as Head of Business Support and Controlling and Swiss Reinsurance Company(1988-2003) in various positions in the fields of Finance, Underwriting, Project Management and IT as well as Communications. She holds a Master degree of the University of Economics in St Gallen, and specialized in the field of corporate structure and organization.

Esther Braendli  will address the main conference theme in a keynote titled:   “Integrated Risk Assessment and Assurance: an answer to increased regulation and risks“.

DATES AND VENUE

17-19 April, 2013, International Business School at Vilnius University,

Saulėtekio ave. 22, Vilnius, Lithuania.

CONFERENCE CONTACTS

Tel.: (+370 5) 2366889

Fax: (+370 5) 2698756.

E-mail: [log in to unmask]

http://conference.tvm.lt/en

Deadline for submission of papers is 21^st of January, 2013.

Manuscripts for the scientific conference are invited in terms of competitive papers, case studies, abstracts, research in progress, special sessions and doctoral research papers in any of the track areas listed below.  For detailed information about the conference and track chairs please visit: http://conference.tvm.lt/en  or contact the organizers by e-mail: [log in to unmask]

TRACKS:

Scope of the conference includes tracks as follows:

I.                    FINANCIAL CRISIS. TURBULENT ECONOMY. SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS

Financial, economic, and sovereign debt crisis: origin, transformation, fiscal policy and implications.

ü  The global recession: Analysis, evaluation, and implications of the policy response and reform proposals.

ü  On the inception of sound derivative products in emerging markets: Real-world observations and viable solutions

ü  Global financial crisis: transgressions and solutions.

ü  2004: The year of the truth; 2008-2009: Transformation of the financial crisis to the economic crisis; 2009-2012: Sovereign debt crisis

ü  The crisis from the point of view of evolutionary and transition economics.

ü  The political, regulatory, and market failures that caused the US financial crisis: What are the lessons?

ü  The global financial crisis and its implications for the European financial industry.

ü  The financial crisis in Europe: evolution, policy responses and lessons for the future.

ü  International comparisons of bank regulation, liberalization, and banking crises.

ü  The impact of the recent financial crisis on EU competition policy for the banking sector.

ü  Financial crisis enforcing global banking reforms.

II.                  FINANCE MARKETS & BANKING REGULATION

Regulating or redesigning finance? Market architectures, normal accidents, and dilemmas of regulatory reform.

ü  The financial crisis: imperfect markets and imperfect regulation.

ü  Basel III's ability to mitigate systemic risk.

ü  Minimum capital requirements and the design of the new Basel Accord.

ü  Liquidity risk, credit risk, market risk and bank capital.

ü  Globalization and financial instability: Challenges for exchange rate and monetary policy.

ü  War on savings: modern monetary management in crisis.

ü  An analysis of global credit risk spreads during crises.

ü  Asset and liability management in financial crisis.

ü  Systemic risk in structured finance: Lessons from the ongoing financial crisis.

ü  The Eurozone financial crisis: role of interdependencies between bank and sovereign risk.

ü  Measures of financial openness and interdependence.

ü  Strategic development processes during economic and financial crisis.

ü  Recovery from the current banking crisis: Insights into costs and effectiveness of response regulations.

ü  A new standard for deposit insurance and government guarantees after the crisis.

III.                INSURANCE AND PENSION FUNDS

A strategic response to the financial crisis: an analysis of insurance services and pension funds before and during the financial crisis.

ü  Global financial crisis: European insurance perspective.

ü  The financial and insurance crisis in Europe: what is real and what is behavioral?

ü  Contagion of financial crises: what does the insurance industry empirical evidence show?

ü  Insurance role in financial crisis: to what extent are capital ratios in banking underpinned by the availability of risk transfer via insurance and reinsurance markets?

ü  Insurance markets after financial crisis in Europe: evolution, policy responses and lessons for the future.

ü  The impact of the financial crisis on EU regulation for the insurance sector.

ü  Global economic melt-down and the role of insurance institutions: lessons from Europe.

ü  Where ignorance is bliss: the “dark corner” of risk classification.

ü  Evaluating the cost efficiency and investment possibilities of insurance companies and pension funds.

ü  Life insurance portfolios: rules-in-use, interest rate risk, and Solvency II Process.

ü  Legal reforms on pension and the opportunity for private and mixed pension funds.

ü  Insights on the decline of pension schemes in Europe.

ü  New trends in emerging economies:  development of micro insurance.

ü  Response of insurance industry to new rising health risks.

ü  Can Natural Disasters be predicted decades in advance? – Changes in  insurance risk management.

ü  Optimizing Claim Management with Risk Analytics.

ü  Actuarial and statistical input  into topic on genetics and insurance.

ü  Financial modeling: Challenged like never before.

IV.               INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & FINANCE MARKETS

Cyclical economy. Have we "got out" the crisis? When the other?

ü  Post-crisis financial reform: Where do we stand?

ü  Cross-border financial surveillance: A network perspective.

ü  Risk-return optimization with different risk-aggregation strategies.

ü  The logic of neoliberal finance and global financial fragility: Towards another great depression?

ü  Financial crisis enforcing global banking reforms.

ü  The structural fragility of financial systems: Analysis and modeling implications for early warning systems.

ü  Global financial crisis: Causes and perspectives.

ü  The need for efficient international financial regulation and the role of a global supervisor.

ü  Financial markets: Implications for financial stability.

ü  Systemic risk in modern financial systems: analytics and policy design.

ü  The institutional intrusion of market failure: Why speculative bubbles still occur?

ü  Global crisis and activities of multinational enterprises in new EU member states.

ü  The financial crisis – American banking versus European banking.

ü  The Japanese finance: is it unique?

ü  The impact of the global financial crisis on emerging and newly industrialized Asia.

V.                 POST-CRISIS CHALLENGES

Introduction to international financial markets in the new era: Post-crisis challenges and opportunities.

ü  The financial crisis and the failure of modern social science.

ü  Financial crisis, activist states and (missed) opportunities.

ü  Post-crisis discourse and organizational change, failure and renewal.

ü  Credit-crisis “villains” brought to book: Better laws and regulation only way to prevent another catastrophe.

ü  Lessons for economists from the financial crisis.

ü  Building solid foundations: Sustainable growth in a post-crisis world.

ü  Differentiated solutions for emerging and transition economies.

ü  A new standard for deposit insurance and government guarantees after the crisis.

ü  Recovery from the current banking crisis: Insights into costs and effectiveness of response regulations.

ü  Post-crisis developments in international financial markets.

ü  Legitimating corporate global irresponsibility: Origins, contexts and vectors of the market modern newspeak.

ü  Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Financial Markets.

ü  Chinese business schools and the future of management in the post-crisis era: Responsibility and opportunity.

ü  American business schools and the future of management in the post-crisis era: Responsibility and opportunity.

ü  European business schools and the future of management in the post-crisis era: Responsibility and opportunity.

VI.               FINANCIAL MARKETS & LEADERSHIP

„Thinking the unthinkable” – Leadership’s role in creating behavioral readiness for crisis management.

ü  Finance regulation, governance and the crisis: a behavioral finance view.

ü  Social corporate responsibility in financial sector.

ü  Corporate responsibility and governance: the responsible corporation in a global economy.

ü  The impact of the crisis on corporate responsibility.

ü  How relevant is corporate governance and corporate social responsibility in emerging markets?

ü  Corporate communication of finance institutions in times of stress.

ü  Corporate governance in the financial services sector.

ü  Banking ethics.

ü  Transitional paradigms to a new world economic order.

ü  A new paradigm for Leadership valuation in financial markets.

ü  The impact of the financial crisis on international business strategies of banks (including Strategic Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions).

ü  The importance of Intellectual Capital Accounting in times of crisis.

ü  Leading concerted strategy development process between science, business and government

VII.             ROLE OF RATING AGENCIES

The role of rating agencies in the context of the global crisis.

ü  Credit rating agencies and global financial crisis: Need for a paradigm shift in financial market regulation.

ü  Ten years' analysis of sovereign risk: noise-rater risk, panels, and errors.

ü  Regulatory use of credit ratings: how it impacts the behavior of market constituents.

ü  Measuring customers' portfolio concentration for rating agencies: evidence from Fitch, Moody's and S&P.

ü  A note on ratings of international finance markets.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be published in the “SCIENCE, BUSINESS & GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP: CHALLENGES FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS” Conference Proceedings.

The best competitive papers at the conference will be considered for publications in any of the following refereed journals:

World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development (WREMSD)  ISSN 1746-0581

and   EuroMed Journal of Business (Emerald Journal)  ISSN 1450-2194.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPERS

Manuscripts should be sent electronically to an e-mail: [log in to unmask]

All manuscripts will be subjected to a double blind, peer review process. Although papers accepted for presentation as a result of the double blind peer review process will be published in the Conference Proceedings, the publication of the papers is not an endorsement of the content of any of the papers by organisers. Organisers are not responsible for any claims made in any of the papers accepted for publication in the proceedings. The authors of each of the papers are solely responsible for the content, referencing of their papers, grammar, theories, positions, and terminology, set forth in proceedings. The authors of each of the papers are also responsible for ensuring that manuscripts they have submitted for publication in the proceedings have not been published elsewhere and contain no material previously published or written by another person, except when due reference is made in the text of the paper. A full paper must be at least 5 pages long. The Conference Proceedings will be supplied to all conference participants and will have an ISBN. Since the conference is of national and international significance as it covers so many important business related areas. Manuscripts should contain up to 250 words structured abstract and conform to the Harvard style of writing. The manuscript must be clearly written without any spelling or grammatical errors. General style/format guide includes:

1. Competitive papers must be between 4000 and 6000 words in length. Work in progress papers must be no longer than 5 pages (all inclusive). Abstract only paper must not be more than one page.
2. Abstract template should be used for overall convenience.
3. The paper should be single spaced, Times New Roman font, 12pt (structured abstract – 10pt) with 2.4cm margin on all four sides and using Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 or Windows 2007. The preferred format is for first level headings to be presented in bold format and subsequent sub-headings to be presented in medium italics. The Manuscript template should be used for overall convenience.
4. All tables and figures should be incorporated into the body of the paper.
5. Notes or Endnotes should be used only if absolutely necessary and must be identified in the text by consecutive numbers, enclosed in square brackets and listed at the end of the article.
6. References to other publications must be in Harvard style and carefully checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency.

More information about how to prepare an abstract and the paper you will find here:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=emjb

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/guides/write/abstracts.htm?part=1#2

IMPORTANTE DEADLINES:

Papers or abstracts should be submitted by 21^st of January, 2013.

Information about acceptance or rejection of the paper will be provided by 1^st of March, 2013.

Early registration before 10^th of March, 2013.

Late registration after 10^th of March, 2013.

* Confirmation letter required.

Best regards,

Erika Vaiginiene, PhD

Deputy Director for Research, Innovation and Quality

Vilnius University

International Business School

Sauletekio av. 22,

LT-10225 Vilnius, Lithuania

Tel. +370 5 236 6897

Mob. +370 611 54664

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Web site: www.tvm.vu.lt

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