Please join University faculty and other members of the
financial community for this year's Financial Services Institute
Symposium entitled, "Re-Examining Risk." Papers will be presented
on many topics, however, this is the main topic of the
symposium.
Date:
Friday, September 12, 2008
Time:
8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Location:
St. John's University
101 Murray Street
New York City
Conference Fee:
- Before August 1: $200
- After August 1: $220
- Alumni: $80
- (Seating is limited, and will be determined on a first-come,
first-serve basis).
Conference Includes:
- Peer reviewed presentation from academicians and
practitioners
- Proceedings
- Breakfast, lunch, snacks and cocktail party
- Best papers will be published in the Review of
Business
Some Papers to be Presented:
Below are just a few of the papers, and authors, to be
presented/presenting at the symposium:
- IT Controls Within the Framework of Basel II
I. Hilmy Elifoglu, St, John’s
University - VAR and its Consequences
Larry Eisenberg, New Jersey Institute
of Technology - How Independent is a “Qualified Independent
Underwriter”
Juan M. Dempere, Metropolitan State
College of Denver - Addition and Deletion Effects of the Standard &
Poor’s 500 Index on Option Markets
Rong Qi, St. John’s
University
Libo Sui, City University of New York - Risk, Regulation and the Common Law: Lessons from the
BCCI Litigation
Joanna Gray, University of Newcastle upon
Tyne, United Kingdom - How Efficient are Credit Default Swap Markets? An
Empirical Study of Capital Structure Arbitrage based on Structural
Pricing Model
Balazs Cserna, Ruprecht-Karls
University, Haidelberg, Germany
Bjorn Imbierowicz, Goethe University, Frankfurt,
Germany - Pricing Multi-Barrier Reverse
Convertibles
Thomas Lindauer, University of St. Gallen,
Switzerland
Ralf Seiz, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Contact:
For more information, contact Dr. Igor M.
Tomic, FSI Academic Director, at Tomici@stjohns.edu. Please
RSVP no later than August 29th.