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Call for Papers – EBI Young Researchers Annual Workshop on Banking and Financial Regulation
22 and 23 February 2019
Goethe University, Campus Westend, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
We are pleased to launch a call for papers for the first EBI Young Researchers Annual Workshop on banking and financial regulation, which will be hosted on 22 and 23 February 2019 in Frankfurt.
We invite PhD researchers and other early-career researchers in law, economics and related disciplines to submit paper proposals pertaining to EU banking or financial regulation. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to present their research to a panel of experts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Capital Markets Union, Banking Union, Governance of Financial Institutions, Monetary Policy, Prudential Regulation, Judicial Review, Shadow Banking, FinTech, Cross-border issues (e.g. related to Brexit).
The Workshop is sponsored by the European Banking Institute (EBI), which will host its fourth Global Annual Conference on Banking Regulation on 21 and 22 February 2019 in Frankfurt. The EBI Young Researchers Workshop will benefit from the participation of senior scholars and experienced practitioners attending the EBI Global Annual Conference. Both EBI professors and conference participants will act as discussants to the papers selected for presentation in the Workshop.
Authors can submit paper abstracts to [email protected] and [email protected]. The deadline for submission is 18:00 hrs. (CET), 9 January 2019. The abstracts shall be between 250 and 500 words long and include contact information, a clearly defined topic, research question, methodology and hypothesis. Please, indicate also up to 5 keywords and JEL Classification, if relevant. Accepted papers will be announced by 18 January 2019 and a full draft paper (between 10,000 and 20,000 words) will be due by 18:00 hrs. (CET), 8 February 2019.
Accepted contributions will participate in the selection of the “EBI YRG Annual Best Paper Award”. The best paper will be included, after the applicable revision procedure, in the EBI Working Paper Series on SSRN.
The Young Researchers Group (YRG) of the EBI is an inter-disciplinary and international platform for exchange and mutual learning for early stage researchers in the rapidly developing area of banking and financial law and policy. Under the wings of the EBI, the YRG conducts research and promotes dialogue between young researchers in relation to issues pertaining to banking and financial regulation. Members of the YRG of the EBI have the opportunity to present their research during several events a year, to meet scholars, regulators and industry representatives, to discuss their research with them, to organise events and to publish research papers with the EBI.
Please feel free to forward this call for papers to interested PhD and post-doctoral researchers within your network or institution.
Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via email.
Best wishes,
Young Researchers Group – European Banking Institute
Members YRG 2018
Ioannis G. Asimakopoulos (University of Luxembourg), Nikolai Badenhoop (Humboldt University of Berlin), Maria Ana Barata (European University Institute), Evariest Callens (Ghent University), María Cecilia del Barrio Arleo (University of Trento), Daniel Detzer (University Oldenburg), Tsany Ratna Dewi (University of Luxembourg), Elena Ghibellini (University of Bologna), Petja Ivanova (Heidelberg University), Lynette G.A. Janssen (Leiden University), Roderic Kermarec (University of Oxford), Lukas Koehler (University of Munich), Edoardo Martino (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Ana Odorovic (University of Hamburg), Katarzyna Parchimowicz (University of Wroclaw), Francesca Pellegrini (University Carlos III of Madrid), Promitheas Peridis (European University Institute), Agnieszka Smoleńska (European University Institute), Ross Spence (Leiden University), Jouke T. Tegelaar (Leiden University).
Press Release: EBI welcomes Fellow Academic Members
The European Banking Institute (EBI) is happy to welcome three new Fellow Academic Members. Further to its Academic Members who represent the Universities that are members of the EBI, the Fellow Academic Members are part of the academic membership and have a seat in the Academic Board. They contribute to the activities of the EBI through their personal areas of research and activities and reinforce the EBI academic community in its endeavours towards cross-EU research and contribution to the policy debate.
Professor Jens-Hinrich Binder has been Professor of Private Law, Commercial and Economic Law at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany) since 2013. Having graduated from Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in 2000, he read for an LL.M. in Banking and Finance Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2000-01), before completing his PhD in law (Dr. iur.) at Freiburg in 2003. From 2011-2013, he held a Chair in Private Law, Company and Banking Law at EBS Law School in Wiesbaden. His research interests are in the areas of banking and financial law, as well as company law and securities law. He has published two monographs on bank resolution and regulatory strategies in company law, respectively, edited several volumes in both German and English on matters of banking and commercial law, and published a large number of articles and contributions on these and related subjects. He serves on the editorial board of ZBB/JBB – Zeitschrift für Bankrechtund Journal Bankbetrieb, Journal of Banking Law and Banking, a German banking law review, and has been appointed to a group of legal experts advising the German Federal Ministry of Finance on matters of financial law. He has lectured at universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, and the People’s Republic of China, as well as government and supra-national agencies.
Professor Christos Gortsos is Professor of Public Economic Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Visiting Professor of International and EU Financial Law at the European Institute of the University of Saarland. The main fields of his research interests and teaching include international and EU monetary and financial law, central banking law, financial regulation and institutional economics, fields in which he has also published extensively. Inter alia, he is also Research Partner in the University Research Priority Program (URPP): Financial Market Regulation of the University of Zürich, has teaching assignments at the European Institute of that University and is a member of the Committee on International Monetary Law of the ILA (MoComILA). For the period September – October 2018 he was elected as Academic Visitor at St Antony’s College (Oxford University).
Professor Georg Ringe is Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg. He is also a Visiting Professor of the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. In Oxford, he is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and an associate member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. Professor Ringe is also a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. His research focuses on European and global issues of corporate and financial law. He is editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, which is been published by Oxford University Press since 2015.
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Press Release – European trade body, AFME, joins European Banking Institute
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Europe’s capital markets join forces with academics on banking regulation & supervision
European trade body, AFME joins European Banking Institute
18 June 2018
FRANKFURT AM MAIN – The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has become the newest supporting member of the European Banking Institute (EBI), joining the 28 academic members from all over Europe, as well as representatives of EU institutions such as the ECB, SRB and EBA and other European banking associations, in order to help develop international academic research on European banking regulation and supervision.
Jacqueline Mills, Managing Director, Head of the AFME Frankfurt Office, said: “AFME is delighted to join the EBI, which is a valuable forum for academics, regulatory and supervisory authorities and market participants to debate current issues affecting the industry. AFME is highly supportive of European research in the area of prudential regulation and supervision, particularly in view of the complex regulatory andsupervisory environment most market participants are currently facing.”
Mills continued: “We hope that AFME’s focus on the particular challenges for global banks can bring a newperspective to the work of the EBI’s academic members. AFME’s participation will also help highlight the linkbetween banking regulation and the development of capital markets, a topic we hope will be increasingly addressed by the European academic community.”
Dr Thomas Gstaedtner, President of the Supervisory Board of the EBI, said: “AFME’s participation in theEuropean Banking Institute (EBI) is a clear signal of the need for further academic research in the area ofwholesale financial markets.”
Gstaedtner also said: “In my role as President of the Supervisory Board of the EBI, I warmly welcome AFME’s decision to support EBI’s activities on a broad range of regulatory and capital markets issues. The EBI is a platform where key market players such as AFME can interact with academics, regulators and supervisors to discuss high quality academic work. The regulatory environment is in constant evolution, in particular in light of Brexit, therefore, the European banking and financial industry requires more dialogue.”
Enrico Leone, Chancellor of the European Banking Institute, said “the EBI is extremely pleased to welcome AFME as a Supporting Member. AFME’s participation will further enrich our academic research, in particularon capital markets. Our academic and supporting members are looking forward to working with them.” Leone also said: “The enthusiastic support our academic joint venture is receiving from supervisors and theindustry shows there is a clear need for research in the field of banking regulation and supervision to mirrorthe supranational/European dimension at which it is developed.”
AFME Contact
Rebecca Hansford
Head of Media [email protected]
+44 (0)20 3828 2693 +44 (0)7825 081 686
European Banking Institute Contacts
Thomas Gstaedtner, President of the Supervisory Board
[email protected]
Enrico Leone, Chancellor
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About AFME
AFME (Association for Financial Markets in Europe) advocates for deep and integrated European capital markets which serve the needs of companies and investors, supporting economic growth and benefitingsociety. AFME is the voice of all Europe’s wholesale financial markets, providing expertise across a broadrange of regulatory and capital markets issues. AFME aims to act as a bridge between market participants and policy makers across Europe, drawing on its strong and long-standing relationships, its technical knowledge and fact-based work. Its members comprise pan-EU and global banks as well as key regional banks, brokers, law firms, investors and other financial market participants. AFME participates in a global alliance with the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) in the US, and the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) through the GFMA (Global Financial Markets Association). For more information please visit the AFME website: www.afme.eu.
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About the European Banking Institute (EBI)
Based in Frankfurt am Main, the European Banking Institute is an international center for banking studies designed to promote an in-depth dialogue between scholars, regulators, supervisors, industry representatives and advisors on issues concerning the regulation and supervision of banking and financial institutions and financial markets. The European Banking Institute is a joint venture of 28 European preeminent academic institutions which have decided to share and coordinate their commitments and structure their research activities in the field of banking regulation, banking supervision and banking resolution in Europe. For more information please visit the EBI website: www.ebi-europa.eu