11th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability"

The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association is organizing a workshop on “Challenges to Financial Stability” on September 25th and 26th, 2025, to be held in Halle (Saale). We aim to attract excellent theoretical and empirical papers from a broad range of financial economics and stability topics.

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Keynote Speaker: Itay Goldstein (Finance Department Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

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Itay Goldstein is the Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor and a Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the faculty of the Wharton School since 2004 and holds a secondary appointment as a Professor of Economics.

Call for papers

Without limiting the scope of topics, areas of particular interest are:

regulation, firms and financial intermediation
law, politics and finance
monetary policy, inflation and financial resilience
macroprudential policy and real estate
financial networks and systemic risk
pricing of climate risk in financial markets
ecological hazards and the behaviour of firms and households
governance of financial firms and markets

Submission:
Please submit papers and direct questions to: FIN-FIRE@iwh-halle.de. The submission deadline is May 18th, 2025.

There is no registration fee for presenters. Accommodation costs for participants will be covered by the IWH and there is limited funding for travelling expenditure available for discussants upon request.

We assume that by submitting your paper and personal data, you agree that this information will be used exclusively for purposes of conference planning. The data and your paper will be passed to the scientific committee for the review process. After the conference, these data will be deleted.

Scientific Committee:
Toni Ahnert, Tobias Berg, Geraldo Cerqueiro, Stefano Colonnello, Olivier Darmouni, Hans Degryse, Ran Duchin, Matthias Efing, Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Falko Fecht, Martin Götz, Jens Hagendorff, Iftekhar Hasan, Florian Heider, Natalya Martynova, Alexander Popov, Klaus Schaeck, Eva Schliephake, Francesca Zucchi

Local Committee:
Dennis Hutschenreiter, Michael Koetter, Shasha Li, Xiang Li, Melina Ludolph, Huyen Nguyen, Felix Noth, Daniel Streitz, Lena Tonzer, Fabian Wöbbeking, Shuo Xia