We invite authors to submit research papers to the 4th Short-Term Funding Markets (STFM) Virtual Conference, co-organized by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the University of Maryland’s Center for Financial Policy.
Date: April 30, 2021 (Virtual)
Paper Submission Deadline: December 31, 2020
The conference theme is broadly defined. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
* Maturity transformation and liquidity management by banks, broker-dealers, money market mutual funds, or other financial intermediaries
* Frictions and fragility in short-term funding markets
* Effects of regulation and central bank intervention on short-term funding markets
* How short-term funding markets affect capital structure and other corporate finance decisions
* Money creation and the demand for safe assets
* Fintech and encrypted currency
Previous Years’ Program: 2018, 2019, 2020
Paper Submission Procedure: The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2020. Please submit completed papers in PDF format without any author information to: STFM-Conference@frb.gov. In the email, please provide author names and preferred contacts. There is no submission fee.
Each paper will be reviewed by at least two program committee members. Authors of selected papers will be notified before mid-February, 2021.
Conference Organizers: Yi Li (Federal Reserve Board), Marco Macchiavelli (Federal Reserve Board), and Russell Wermers (University of Maryland)
Program Committee: Sriya Anbil (Federal Reserve Board), Jack Bao (University of Delaware), Sergey Chernenko (Purdue), Nathan Foley-Fisher (Federal Reserve Board), Emily Gallagher (University of Colorado), Itay Goldstein (Wharton), Gary Gorton (Yale), Sebastian Infante Bilbao (Federal Reserve Board), Wei Jiang (Columbia), Marcin Kacperczyk (Imperial College London), Lei Li (Federal Reserve Board), Philipp Schnabl (NYU), Andre Silva (Federal Reserve Board), Allan Timmermann (UCSD), Alex Zhou (Federal Reserve Board), Haoxiang Zhu (MIT Sloan), and Francesca Zucchi (Federal Reserve Board)
