The Future of Banking: Risk Management, Governance, and Innovation in a Regulated World

The organising committee invites submissions of high-quality theoretical and empirical research papers on all areas of financial intermediation, risk management, regulation and supervision, including (but not limited to)

• Innovations in risk management practices and technologies
• Risk identification, assessment and mitigation in the financial industry
• Stress testing and scenario analysis in risk management
• Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities in financial intermediaries
• Regulatory and supervisory cybersecurity frameworks
• Corporate governance of banks and its impact on bank behaviour, performance and stability
• Board oversight and executive management of banks
• Regulatory and supervisory tools for enhancing bank governance standards
• Assessing and managing geopolitical risks with relevance to the banking sector
• Banks’ challenges and opportunities in the era of digitisation and artificial intelligence (AI)
• Regulatory and supervisory approaches to emerging technologies such as AI, blockchains, and cryptocurrencies
• Determinants and effects of interplay between non-bank financial institutions and banks
• Interlinkages between the real economy and financial intermediaries

The conference will feature plenary sessions with keynotes addresses by Christine Parlour (Haas School of Business Berkeley), Elena Carletti (Bocconi University and CEPR) and speeches by Fritzi Köhler-Geib and Michael Theurer (Members of the Board of Deutsche Bundesbank).

Please submit your paper until 18 May 2025 via ConfTool.

The conference will be held physically at the Deutsche Bundesbank Conference Centre in Eltville am Rhein, Germany. Eltville is located close to Frankfurt am Main and can be reached within 30 minutes from Frankfurt International airport.

The conference is organised jointly by the Deutsche Bundesbank, the IWH, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Economy class travel expenses (subject to price limits) and accommodation will be covered for invited academic speakers and discussants.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Falko Fecht (Deutsche Bundesbank), Daniel Foos (Deutsche Bundesbank), Martin Götz (Deutsche Bundesbank), Björn Imbierowicz (Deutsche Bundesbank), Michael Koetter (IWH and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg), Melina Ludolph (IWH and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg), Natalya Martynova (Deutsche Bundesbank), Huyen Nguyen (IWH and Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Alexander Schulz (Deutsche Bundesbank) 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Jean Edouard Colliard (HEC Paris and CEPR), Ricardo Correa (Federal Reserve Board of Governors), Matteo Crosignani (Federal Reserve Bank of New York and CEPR), Claudia Custodio (Imperial College London and CEPR), Thomas Eisenbach (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Tim Eisert (Nova School of Business and Economics and CEPR), Galina Hale (University of California, Santa Cruz and CEPR), Marie Hoerova (European Central Bank and CEPR), Emilia Garcia Appendini (Norges Bank; University of St. Gallen), Stephen Karolyi (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency), Shohini Kundu (University of California, Los Angeles and CEPR), Agnese Leonello (European Central Bank and CEPR), Gyöngyi Lóránth (University of Vienna and CEPR), David Martinez-Miera (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and CEPR), Camelia Minoiu (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), Lars Norden (Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration), Felix Noth (IWH and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg), Enrico Perotti (University of Amsterdam and CEPR), Diane Pierret (University of Luxembourg and CEPR), Andrea Polo (LUISS University and CEPR), Kasper Roszbach (Norges Bank; University of Groningen), Larissa Schäfer (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and CEPR), Daniel Streitz (IWH and Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Javier Suarez (Center for Monetary and Financial Studies and CEPR), Yannick Timmer (Federal Reserve Board of Governors), Neeltje van Horen (Bank of England and CEPR), Jing Zeng (University of Bonn and CEPR)