Mark Dom, Jose A. Lopez, and I are organizing a conference on the
intersection between financial market innovations and the real economy.
The conference is to be held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
on November 16 & 17, 2006.

The call for papers is attached, as well as being in the text of the
message below. Papers need to be submitted electronically by April 3,
2006.

If you are aware of other researchers working in this area, we would
appreciate your sharing the call for papers with them.

Happy holidays,

John Fernald

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Call for papers:
Financial Market Innovations and the Real Economy

A conference to be held on November 16 & 17 at the Federal Reserve Bank of
San Francisco’s Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is sponsoring a conference on
Financial Market Innovations and the Real Economy to be held in San
Francisco on November 16 & 17, 2006. This conference will focus on
empirical and theoretical issues surrounding how innovations in financial
markets have affected the volatility, dynamics, and/or growth of the real
economy. For instance, consumers have faced an ever growing array of
financial services as well as sharply declining costs of those services,
likely affecting saving and consumption behavior. For businesses, new
financial engineering tools allow better management of risks and greater
access to capital which may affect their investment, output, and pricing
decisions. Additionally, innovations in financial markets affecting the
allocation of risk and liquidity of markets have raised both macroeconomic
and microeconomic policy issues. The selection committee is interested in
research papers that examine these and other issues that draw connections
between financial markets and real economic outcomes.

Those interested in presenting at this conference should send a PDF of
their paper or a detailed abstract to finance.conference@sf.frb.org by
April 3, 2006. Only authors of accepted papers will be notified, and
travel expenses for these authors will be provided. A summary of the
conference papers will be available at
http://www.frbsf.org/economics/conference.

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