The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association and the FIRE research centre at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management are organising a joint Workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability" on August 20th and 21st, 2018, to be held in Halle (Saale). The workshop provides a platform to discuss changes in the regulatory framework of the financial sector, their impact on financial stability, and consequences for the real sector.

We invite theoretical and empirical contributions on topics including:

• regulation, firms and financial intermediation
• law, politics and finance
• unconventional policy and low interest rates
• macro prudential policy and real estate
• implications of central clearing for systemic risk
• digitalisation and business models of financial institutions
• financial networks and systemic risk

Please submit your paper to: finconf@iwh-halle.de. The submission deadline is April 28th, 2018. Authors will be informed by June 1st, 2018.

There is no registration fee. However, participants are expected to pay their expenses for travel and accommodation.

Contact: Andrea Strauch, E-mail: ast@iwh-halle.de

For more information:  http://www.iwh-halle.de/en/about-the-iwh/events/detail/detail/4th-iwh-fin-fire-workshop-on-challenges-to-financial-stability/