Citation
(2010), "Qualitative Research in Financial Markets", Asian Review of Accounting, Vol. 18 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ara.2010.34118aaa.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Qualitative Research in Financial Markets
Article Type: Conference announcement and Call for papers From: Asian Review of Accounting, Volume 18, Issue 1
Behavioural Perspectives on the Financial CrisisBehavioural Finance Working Group,Cass Business School, City University, London, 10-11 DecemberConference organisers: William Forbes, Paul Hamalainen, and Gulnur MuradogluKeynote speaker: Werner De Bondt, De Paul University, Chicago, USA
Overview
The unfolding financial crisis issues a dramatic challenge to the current practice of banking, insurance and investment management professionals and those who regulate them. The intensity of the crisis raises problems regarding the adequacy of prevailing orthodoxy regarding how markets operate and how their excesses might be controlled. Behavioural approaches to finance as an emergent complement to and critique of standard finance theory should have much to say about both the causes and the potential remedies for ``the state we are in''. This inaugural meeting of the Behavioural Workshop will seek contributions from areas which include, while not being limited to, the following issues:
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The construction of mental frames and heuristics to guide risk management of structured finance products, securitised debt and other instruments.
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The role of individual investors in the crisis, especially those obtaining "sub-prime'' mortgages.
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The psychology and reactions of investors (professional and retail) to the engulfing crisis.
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The way forward and behavioural perspectives on rebuilding a robust financial system.
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Attempts to improve financial markets by enhancing "financial democracy'' through trading platforms for the most commonly feared risks, losing one's job or home, etc.
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Reflecting behavioural perspectives in financial regulation and corporate governance reforms.
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Professional investors, transparency and behavioural assumptions underlying market discipline.
The deadline for paper submissions is 18 September 2009. The organisers will come back with a decision within three weeks after the deadline. To submit a paper for consideration please e-mail a PDF version of the paper to: Behavioural-Finance@city.ac.uk
Papers chosen for submission will be considered for publication for a special issue of Qualitative Research in Financial Markets.
There will be a separate PhD session to encourage the work of PhD students on Behavioural Finance. PhD students with full or near full papers are encouraged to apply.