The Journal of Financial Regulation hosts the conference Regulating Moral Hazard in Financial Markets on July 11-12, 2014.
The threat of moral hazard has played an influential role in shaping post-crisis policy debates about the optimal role and limits of financial regulation as a means of constraining socially excessive risk-taking. Simultaneously, however, our understanding of moral hazard – its potential sources, its impact on financial markets and institutions, and the most appropriate regulatory responses – is far from complete. Where does moral hazard reside within the financial system? How does it influence the decisions of market participants, financial regulators, and elected policymakers? How can we identify and measure its impact? What role does financial regulation play in generating it? And, most importantly, what role can regulation play in preventing – or at the very least minimizing – its pernicious effects?
The conference organizers invite papers from scholars, policymakers and practitioners on each of these topics. The organizers encourage the submission of papers which examine these topics from an interdisciplinary, international and/or comparative perspective.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: All papers should be submitted via email to Genevieve Helleringer at genevieve.helleringer[@]law.ox.ac.uk. The subject line of the email should state “JFR Inaugural Conference Submission”. Authors who wish to have their conference submission considered for the inaugural issue of the JFR should also submit their paper via the ScholarOne link available on the journal’s website: jfr.oxfordjournals.org
Deadlines: The deadline for submission of papers for the conference is February 1st, 2014. Authors will be notified regarding whether their paper has been accepted for presentation at the conference by April 1st, 2014. im
