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NBER: Call for Papers: Wharton Conference on Liquidity and Financial Crises

Call for Papers: Wharton Conference on Liquidity and Financial Crises

From: Guillermo Ordonez <ordonez_at_sas.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:52:42 -0400

Dear Colleague,
We would like to draw your attention to this call for papers for a
conference on liquidity and financial crises that we are organizing at
Wharton.
Please distribute to any potentially interested colleagues and consider
submitting a paper yourself.
Best Regards,
Franklin, Itay and Guillermo

Following the success of last year's conference, the Financial
Institutions Center of the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania is organizing the second conference on *"Liquidity and
Financial Crises". *The conference will take place on the University of
Pennsylvania Campus (Philadelphia PA) starting on the morning of Friday,
October 11, 2013 and ending in the afternoon of Saturday October 12,
2013. There will also be a reception and dinner on Friday evening.
Details of last year's program are available here:
http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/Program%20Conference%20Wharton.pdf. We
plan to follow a similar format this year.
We invite submissions of empirical and theoretical papers in various
fields of economics and finance that touch upon the broad theme of
*Liquidity and Financial Crises*. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:
··Coordination failures, self-fulfilling beliefs, and runs
··Financial frictions and the macro economy
··Liquidity and frictions in financial markets
··Systemic risk and financial regulation
··Financial institutions, networks, and contagion
··Sovereign debt crises and their link to the financial sector
··The impact of crises and fragility on firms' financing and investment
policies
The organizers of the conference are *Franklin Allen* (Wharton Finance),
*Itay Goldstein* (Wharton Finance), and *Guillermo Ordonez* (Penn
Economics). Please send submissions to
liquidwharton2013_at_wharton.upenn.edu
<mailto:liquidwharton2013_at_wharton.upenn.edu> by July 1, 2013. Authors
will be notified by August 1, 2013 about the selection of papers.

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Guillermo L. Ordonez
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania
428 McNeil Building
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
phone:  (215) 898-8484
fax:    (215) 573-2057
email:  ordonez_at_econ.upenn.edu
URL:    http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ordonez
Received on Mon Mar 11 2013 - 15:52:42 EDT