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Category Archives: Conferences
Conferences on financial networks in May
Risk Europe 2010 (Frankfurt, 25-28 May) will have a seminar on “Using financial network models for counterparty risk analysis: from micro to macro” Â by Olli Castren (European Central Bank) and a session on “Using network theory to assess systemic risk” presented by me. Risk Europe is the Risk Magazines annual flagship event and carries this [...]
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ECB promotes research on emerging front: “Too networked to fail”
The ECB conference "Recent advances in modelling systemic risk using network analysis" was featured today in Securities Operations Week – a weekly publication focused on US and global securities operations, technology and compliance:
"The financial crisis that began to emerge in 2007 and that gained steam in 2008 famously gave rise to the oft-cited slogan “too [...]
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Workshop on Financial Networks and Risk Assessment
MITACS is organizing a Workshop on Financial Networks and Risk Assessment, taking place in Toronto from May 19 to May 21, 2010. The workshop is part of the MITACS International Focus Period on Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications and will be attended by 30-50 specialists in the field (from academia and business) as [...]
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SNA conferences for 2010
A few conference announcements from INSNA mailing list:
NetSciCom 2010, Second IEEE International Workshop on Network Science For Communication Networks, March 19, 2010 – San Diego, CA, USA
6th UK Social Networks Conference to take place at University of Manchester from 12th to 16th of April 2010.
Workshop on Financial Networks and Risk Assessment, May 19.21, 2010 in Toronto [...]
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ECB workshop on “Recent advances in modelling systemic risk using network analysis”
European Central Bank (ECB) organized a workshop with the above title last Monday, 5th of October. It was the first event of this scale gathering researchers applying network theory and network analysis on banking, financial stability and systemic risk topics. The introductory remarks to the workshop were given by Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Member of the ECB’s [...]
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7th Bank of Finland Simulation seminar
The Bank of Finland’s simulation seminar was organized for the 7th time on 24-26 August 2009. I thought both the talks and the discussions on the agenda this year were of high quality. I presented some work done together with Marco Galbiati on central counterparties and the topology of clearing networks. The conference covered analysis [...]
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First ABM-BaF in Torino
The first workshop on Agent-Based Modeling in Banking and Finance (ABM-BaF, see agenda) was organized by ISI Foundation, the Association of Italian Bankers, the Italian Cognitive Science Association and the Department of Economics and Public Finance “G. Prato” of the University of Torino. The three day event (9-11 February 2009) brought together researchers, bankers and [...]
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Economics of payments
Norges Bank organized on 14-15 November its conference on the burgeoning literature of “Payment economics”. Papers covered mainly retail payments topics and interchange fees continued to be on the forefront. The conference agenda with the papers and discussions can be found here.
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Bank of Finland Simulation Seminar
As for the past five late August weeks, the Bank of Finland organised its annual Payment and Settlement Simulation Seminar. The BoF-PSS2 simulator which I helped to create is now in use in 72 sites across the world, mainly at central banks, clearing houses and universities. The seminar program consisted of a wide array of [...]
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Workshop on “Frameworks for Systemic Risk Monitoring”