The organising committee of this small, informal conference invites submissions of high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.

HOW TO APPLY

To respond, please visit: https://portal.cepr.org/14th-swiss-winter-conference-financial-intermediation and indicate if you wish to present a paper. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact the CEPR Events team at meets@cepr.org for assistance (with subject header “5705 – Swiss Winter Conference 2021”). The deadline for replies is 6pm (GMT), Friday 30 October 2020. Authors will be notified about the acceptance of papers and the conference program by December 4, 2020. There is no conference fee and there are no accommodation costs for the invited presenters, discussants and chairs, but all participants must cover their own travel costs.

FURTHER INFORMATION

The conference will be held at the Hotel Schweizerhof in the mountain resort of Lenzerheide, Switzerland (www.schweizerhof-lenzerheide.ch). The academic programme starts Monday morning (March 29) at 08:00 and ends Wednesday (March 31) before noon. Due to capacity constraints, preference will be given to participants who can stay for the whole duration of the conference. Participants should plan to arrive Sunday afternoon (March 28) and leave Wednesday afternoon (March 31). There will be eleven papers and discussions (including one session covered by the BIS on financial innovation), twenty posters, and one session with five research idea “elevator pitches”. However, ample time for discussion, reflection and outdoor activities will be left for sure.

Accommodation costs and meals during the conference will be sponsored by the Bank for International Settlements, the Swiss Finance Institute and Goethe University Frankfurt, KU Leuven and University of Zurich.

In case Covid19 prevents the conference to take place in person or large groups, we will adjust towards a combination of online and personal presence conference, or a completely online conference.

The conference is committed to promoting high-quality diversity in the covered topics (e.g., green, shadow and/or behavioural banking), in the modelling techniques and data sets employed, and in the background of the participants (e.g., institutional affiliation, gender, nationality).