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We are pleased to announce the details of the professional workshop that will take place June 19th during the IRMC 2012: "Sovereign Risk, Financial Stability and Regulation"
Keynote speeches: Ed Altman "Predicting Default and Recovery Rates" and Robert Engle " How Does Systemic Risk Look Today”.
8:45 – 13:00 - PRACTITIONERS WORKSHOP - Sovereign risk, financial stability and regulation
08:45 - P. Savona, FITD Chairman, Opening
09:00 - Ed Altman, NYU: Predicting Default and Recovery Rates
09:40 - R. Engle, NYU, How Does Systemic Risk Look Today
Moderator: O. Roggi, UNIFI & NYU
10:20 - 10:35 Coffee Break
10:35 - 11:50 1st Roundtable: Sovereign risk and financial stability
Opening speech: G. Bernardino, Chairman; EIOPA European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority
Invited speakers:
- Bank of Italy TBA
- D. Focarelli Chief Economist, ANIA - Ass. Italiana Imprese Assicuratrici, ESRB – European Systemic Risk Board
- M. Esentato Managing Director, Classis Capital
- M. Pierdicchi Managing Director, Standard and Poor, Italy
- S. Schich Principal Economist, OECD
Moderator: F. Campolongo, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
11.50 - 13.00 2nd Roundtable: Financial stability and regulation: how to avoid financial repression?
Opening speech: S. Micossi, General Director; Assonime - Associazione fra le Società italiane per Azioni
Invited Speakers:
- D. Alfonsi, Head of Risk, Banca Intesa SanPaolo
- F. Carns, Director of Officer of International Affairs, FIDC – Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- TBA, FBCC - Italian Co-operative Banks Deposit Protection Fund
- M. Marchesi, Financial Stability Unit, European Commission
- G. Niolu, KPMG
Moderator: R. De Lisa, Unica & FITD
February 28th 2012 - SPECIAL ISSUE on FINANCIAL MARKETS INSTITUTIONS AND INSTRUMENTS – NYU Salomon Center and Wiley: a special issue of the Financial Markets Institutions and Instruments (Executive Editor: Anthony Saunders – NYU Stern) on the theme: “Global Standards for Risk Measurement, Management and Regulation will be published under the Guest Editorship of Riccardo De Lisa (Host Chair), Francesca Campolongo (JRC) and Oliviero Roggi (Permanent Chair). Papers submitted for this special issue will undergo the normal journal review process. Authors whose papers are accepted for presentation at the conference are encouraged to submit their papers for the FMIIJ special issue. The best 4-5 papers selected will form the short list of papers accepted for publication. This information will be notified by April 30th, 2012 and the dead line for final submission to the journal is May 31st, 2012. Click here for more information
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Rome, Italy: June 18th – 19th, 2012
Italian Deposit Insurance Fund
Dear Colleagues and/or previous attendee,
After the fourth successful edition in Amsterdam, the permanent organizers (University of Florence, NYU Stern Salomon Center) together with this year Host Institution (Italian Deposit Insurance Fund) and in collaboration with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the Corporate Governance Unit of the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group), University of Rome – La Sapienza and University of Rome – Tor Vergata and Roma Tre, would like to invite you to the Fifth edition of the International Risk Management Conference in Rome, Italy.
The conference will bring together leading experts from Academia and Professionals for a two-day conference consisting of three keynote plenary sessions and three parallel sessions and ½-day professional workshop on “Financial Stability”. The conference will be held in Rome next June 18th-19st. This year the focus area is on Global Standards for Risk Measurement, Management and Regulation.

Paper Submission:
Full-papers must be submitted by email at the following address: info@irmc.eu
Papers are due by March 31st, 2012 (final draft is allowed).
Keynote Speakers:
Keynote and featured speakers will include Edward Altman (NYU Stern), Zvi Bodie (Boston University - TBC), Robert Engle (NYU Stern), Clas Wihlborg (Chapman University), Andrea Sironi (Bocconi University) and Marti Subrahmanyam (NYU Stern). Several other renowned scholars in other research areas are expected to attend.
Focus area: Global Standards for Risk Measurement, Management and Regulation
More in detail the following questions are likely to be answered:
- Are today’s risk measurement and management tools adequate in the face of global instability?
- What is the impact of sovereign credit risk on banks and financial system stability? Are current measures of sovereign risk adequate?
- Are there new and better measures of systemic risk available?
- Are conventional measures of risk derivatives still valid?
- Equity risk premiums, are they converging across geographic areas due to global risk aversion?
Are current financial regulations adequate to restore financial stability?
- Is the new financial regulation worth its costs?
- Measurement and impact of bank stress tests on capital requirements under the new Basel regime and recent European crisis conditions
- What are the implications of the financial crisis on financial system regulations?
DEPOSIT INSURANCE Special Topics: Sponsored by European Forum of Deposit Insurers
- How to design an efficient financial safety net (e.g. deposit insurance, capital regulation, resolution fund)?
- Are current bank risk measures adequate and still valid?
- What are the lessons learned for regulatory rules from the crisis?
Regular thematic areas:
1. Risk management, banking and regulation
2. Banking and Financial system regulation
3. Corporate finance & risk management
4. Quantitative tools for risk management
5. Macroeconomic risks, Regulation and Accounting Standards

Practitioners' Workshop: “Financial Stability and Sovereign crisis”
Guest speakers will include Edward Altman (NYU), Rob Engle (NYU), Paolo Savona and Roberto Moretti (Italian Deposit Insurance fund), Workshop’s Panel Chairs: Invited Panelist candidates are corporate executives from important financial institutions in Italy and worldwide
IRMC is organized by:
Permanent Conference Co-Chairmen
Prof. Edward Altman NYU Stern School of Business
Prof. Oliviero Roggi, University of Florence and NYU Stern - (oliviero.roggi@unifi.it)
Co-organizers:
Joint Research Center European Commission - Francesca Campolongo
Corporate Governance Unit of the International Finance Corporation (IBRD) - Maxine Garvey
Host institution
Italian Deposit Insurance Fund (FITD)
Roberto Moretti, Secretary General
Prof. Riccardo De Lisa, Univesity of Cagliari and FITD
Local University PARTNERS:
University of Roma Tor Vergata – Alessandro Carretta
University of Rome Tre – Franco Fiordelisi
University of Rome La Sapienza – Giovanni Palomba
Conference Consultants:
Prof. Maurizio Dallocchio, Bocconi University
Prof. Maurizio Fanni, University of Trieste
Prof. Giorgio Bertinetti, University of Venice (2009)
Prof. Herbert Rijken - VU University Amsterdam (2011)
Auspicies
Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (TBC)
Associazione per la Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Economiche e Sociali (TBC)
ADIFIN (TBC)
Conference Management
Conference management
The Risk, Banking and Finance Society
Tel +39 0554374720
fax +39 0554374109
Skype: irmc2008
Pre-event Conference management
Finanza Firenze Research Centre
www.finanzafirenze.org
irmc@finanzafirenze.org
Contacts
For more details contact the IRMC conference coordinator
Thank you in advance for your attention and participation. Looking forward to meet you personally at the IRMC2012 conference. Best Regards
Edward Altman - NYU Stern
Oliviero Roggi - University of Florence and NYU Stern
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