CFIC 2019 Submission

Chicago Financial Institutions Conference (CFIC) 2019

Call For Papers

Date: April 11-12, 2019

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Welcome to the submission site for the Chicago Financial Insititutions Conference 2019.

The submission deadline for papers is October 31, 2018. Papers should be submitted by email to cfic@depaul.edu. Please use this site to complete the $25 submission fee.

We welcome submissions of high-quality research on all topics related to financial institutions. A list of possible session topics includes, but is not limited to, the theory of financial intermediation; financial institution performance and risk; market-making institutions; banking and the real economy; syndicated lending and securitization; fintech; central banks and monetary policy; relationship lending and small business finance; consumer finance and payment systems; financial crises and systemic risk; governance of financial institutions; international banking; and financial regulation. Authors will be notified whether their papers have been accepted by late December.

Registration for the conference is available at http://cfic2019.eventbrite.com.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:

Lamont Black – DePaul University

Elijah Brewer – DePaul University

ADVISORY COMMITTEE:

Allen N. Berger – University of South Carolina

Charles W. Calomiris – Columbia University

Robert DeYoung – University of Kansas

Mark J. Flannery – University of Florida

Iftekhar Hasan – Fordham University

Joseph G. Haubrich – Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Randall Kroszner – University of Chicago

Steven Ongena – University of Zurich

George Pennacchi – University of Illinois

Greg Udell – Indiana University

Larry D. Wall – Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

The Department of Finance and the Center for Financial Services at DePaul University will hold the fourth annual Chicago Financial Institutions Conference on April 11-12, 2019. The conference brings together academics from around the world to present research on important issues in the financial services industry. Prior to this academic conference, attendees are invited to join the 12th annual Risk Management Conference with financial service professionals on April 10, which is co-sponsored with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Together, these two conferences offer a unique opportunity to connect academic and practitioner perspectives.