Workshop announcement:
MAFIN 09
First International Workshop on Managing Financial Instability in Capitalistic Economies
Reykjavik (Iceland), September 3rd - 5th, 2009
http://mafin09.ru.is
Call for Papers:
Researchers are invited to submit a paper to the First International Workshop on Managing Financial Instability in Capitalistic Economies (MAFIN 09), to be held in Reykjavik (Iceland), September 3rd - 5th, 2009.
Aims and scope:
The purpose of the workshop is twofold: to discuss new modelling paradigms in financial economics and to design new public intervention policies aimed to recover a capitalist economy from a deep recession caused by a credit crunch or a collapse in assets values. The Icelandic economy will be discussed as a case study.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Agent-based computational economics
• Behavioural finance and economics
• Economics of heterogeneous and interacting agents
• Financial Keynesianism and financial fragility
• Financial engineering and regulation
• Econophysics
• Endogenous and systemic risk management
• Evolutionary economics
• Financial econometrics
• Statistical equilibrium in economics
This three-day event will offer presentations of papers selected by the Scientific Committee after a blindly double review, as well as keynote sessions by Invited Speakers. Discussions will have a large space in the final program.
A final round table is foreseen in discuss new possible foundations to the science of economics. A related document, called Reykjavik manifesto, will be released.
Venue:
The workshop will be held at Reykjavik University in the Ofanleiti building, 103 Reykjavik, Iceland.
Submissions:
An extended abstract or a short paper should be submitted in PDF format by sending an email to: [log in to unmask]
The deadline for the submission of extended abstracts or short papers is July 19th, 2009.
The maximum length of contributions should be 6 pages.
Please send an anonymous version without any author information to guarantee a double-blind review. Author(s) information must be included in the body of the email.
Workshop Proceedings:
After the event, we plan to publish in a special issue of a Journal with a JCR impact factor, the extended and revised versions of some selected papers modified after the remarks and discussions that will take place during the Workshop.
Important dates:
July 19th, 2009 Submission of extended abstracts or short papers
August 15th, 2009 Notification of acceptance
August 25th, 2009 Workshop registration deadline
September 3rd – 5th, 2009 Workshop
October 31st, 2009 Submission of final papers
Organizing Committe:
Marco Raberto (Chair), Reykjavik University, Iceland
Hlynur Stefánsson (Co-Chair), Reykjavik University, Iceland
Birgir Arnarson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Haraldur Óskar Haraldsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Opening speech:
Mr. Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Minister of Finance, Republic of Iceland
Invited speakers:
Silvano Cincotti, University of Genova, Italy
(title to be announced)
Cees Diks, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Bounded rationality, herding, and endogenous evolution towards market instability"
Mauro Gallegati, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
"Why financial markets are unstable?"
Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
"Historians are from Venus and economists from Mars. Different approaches to the Icelandic bank collapse"
Thomas Lux, University of Kiel, Germany
"Mass psychology in action: identification of social Interaction Effects in the German stock market"
Enrico Scalas, University of East Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy
"Combinatorial stochastic processes and the reconstruction of macroeconomics"
Willi Semmler, New School, New York, USA
"Facts and modeling of the recent financial market meltdown"
Leanne Ussher, City University of New York , USA
"Monetary policy reform in an agent-based model"
Scientific Committee:
Marco Raberto (Chair), Reykjavik University, Iceland
Farid Ait-Sahalia, University of Florida, USA
Trond Andresen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Friðrik Már Baldursson*, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Giulio Bottazzi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Olivier Brandouy, University of Lille, France
Charlotte Bruun, Aalborg University, Denmark
Carl Chiarella, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Silvano Cincotti, University of Genova, Italy
David Colander, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA
Luca Colombo, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Andrea Consiglio, University of Palermo, Italy
Carmen Costea, Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania
Sergio Da Silva, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Jon Danielsson*, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Paul De Grauwe, University of Leuven, Belgium
Roberto Dieci, University of Bologna, Italy
Tiziana Di Matteo, King's College, London, UK
Giorgio Fagiolo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Duncan Foley, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Xavier Gabaix, New York University,USA
Mauro Gallegati, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
Eric Guerci, GREQAM, Marseilles, France
Cars Hommes, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Peter Howitt, Brown University, Providence, USA
Giulia Iori, City University, London, UK
Steve Keen, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Alan Kirman, GREQAM, Marseilles, France
Thomas Lux, University of Kiel, Germany
Diana Mangalagiu, Reims Management School, France
Rosario Mantegna, University of Palermo, Italy
Michele Marchesi, University of Cagliari, Italy
Matteo Marsili, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
John Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK
Oddgeir Ágúst Ottesen, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Marta Posada, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Luciano Pietronero, Università la Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Araceli Proto, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pietro Riechlin, Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, Italy
Enrico Scalas, University of East Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy
Andrea Scharnhorst, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Netherlands
Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Willi Semmler, New School University, New York, USA
Sorin Solomon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Eugene Stanley, Boston University, USA
Hlynur Stefánsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Andrea Teglio, University of Genoa, Italy
Frank Westerhoff, University of Bamberg, Germany
Dasheng Wu, Reykjavik University, Iceland
(*to be confirmed)
Acknowledgments:
The workshop is funded by the Reykjavik University Development Fund
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