SOVEREIGN BOND MARKETS

IN UNSTABLE TIMES

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the 9th International Conference on Sovereign Bond Markets.

The conference this year focuses on Sovereign Bond Markets in Unstable Times, and it is hosted by the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Co-organizers include the NYU Stern|Volatility and Risk Institute, the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, the Imperial College|Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis, the London Business School|AQR Asset Management Institute, the Bank of Canada, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the European Central Bank, and MTS.

Recent financial and real instability presented numerous unprecedented challenges to central banks and governments in both industrialized countries and emerging markets. As financial markets digest the latest round of QE unwinding, rampant inflation takes root in developed economies while the protracted war in Ukraine and new coronavirus waves in China both strain global supply chains and destabilize the pre-existing economic and geopolitical order. This unprecedented confluence of challenges will force policy makers to adopt new strategies, often untested, in order to fight inflation and ensure stable deficit funding while minimizing the potential distortions of their actions on both Wall Street and Main Street - from liquidity drainage to excessive economic contraction to volatility and financial instability.

The final program will include both submitted and invited papers. 

The Conference will also feature panel discussions on the major outstanding issues in sovereign bond markets.

CALL FOR PAPERS

• Unconventional monetary policies during periods of turmoil and:
  
  1. Pricing of financial assets and exchange rates
  2. Divergent policy-making around the globe
  3. Market participants, primary dealers, and other institutions
  4. Risk taking by banks
  5. Spillovers and network effects from the US/Europe/Japan to other economies
  6. Spillovers and network effects across asset classes
  7. Currency regimes
  8. Investment and financial decisions of firms
  9. Financial market liquidity.
• The impact of inflation-motivated monetary and fiscal policies on the sovereign bond markets
• Financial stability in an unstable world and:
  1. Sovereign risk in inflationary or recessionary economies
  2. Quantitative tightening
  3. The bank-sovereign “doom loop”
  4. Financial dislocations and their real effects.

While the above topics define the broad contours of the areas of interest, papers in related areas may also be considered.

Those wishing to present a paper at the Conference should submit by December 1, 2022 at Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo..

Decisions regarding acceptance will be made by February 1, 2023.

The final version of accepted papers must be received by March 1, 2023.

IMPORTANT DATES

• December 1, 2022 Papers submission deadline
• February 1, 2023 Paper acceptance notification
• March 1, 2023 Deadline for sending final version of accepted papers
  

VENUE

Boston College
Murray Room in the Yawkey Athletic Center
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

PARKING IN COMMONWEALTH AVENUE GARAGE – enter at 40 St. Thomas More Road, Boston 02135. The garage will be on your right.  Enter and pull a ticket.  At registration you can swap for a validated ticket.

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