Call for Papers: Workshop on Banking and Finance in Emerging Markets

CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Banking and Finance in Emerging Markets
September 27–28, 2021
EM Strasbourg Business School, University of Strasbourg, France

Workshop is organized by LaRGE Research Center (University of Strasbourg), Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT), and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University (New York).
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: CHEN LIN (The University of Hong Kong)

TOPICS: The workshop organizers invite researchers to submit empirical papers covering all areas of banking and finance in emerging markets. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

• banking and institutions
• political economy of banking
• financial stability in emerging markets
• political connections of firms
• institutional underpinnings of financial systems
• political uncertainty and financial decisions

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Those interested in presenting a paper should submit a copy of their research in Word or pdf format via online submission form. Only complete papers will be considered. There is no conference fee. The deadline for submission is March 31st, 2021. The authors of accepted papers will be notified by April 26th, 2021.

FURTHER INFORMATION: We aim to organize the workshop in Strasbourg. Nevertheless, depending on the pandemic situation at the time of the workshop, the workshop might be held in a hybrid form or entirely online.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Zuzana Fungáčová (BOFIT), Iftekhar Hasan (Fordham University), Iikka Korhonen (BOFIT), Paul Wachtel (New York University), Laurent Weill (LaRGE Research Center, University of Strasbourg).

University of Zurich: PhD Student in FinTech

The Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab of the University of Zurich seeks applications for the position of a PhD student and scientific assistant (m/f). The Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab is part of the Department of Banking and Finance and is linked to the Department of Informatics of the University of Zurich and the associated Blockchain Center. The research focus of the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab is, among others, in the area of cryptocurrencies, digital central bank money, blockchain applications in finance, digital sustainable finance, and impact of digitalization on investor behavior.

Your responsibilities
The activity mainly includes participation in research projects in the fields mentioned above. Teaching activities and participation in the organization of the chair are on a small scale.

Your profile
The prerequisite is a completed university diploma or master's degree with a focus on finance, business administration, economics, statistics, (business) psychology, (business) mathematics, informatics or a related subject with above-average performance and a strong interest in scientific work in the above-mentioned subject areas. In addition, very good language skills in English and good knowledge of statistics as well as extraordinary initiative and commitment are expected. Programming skills are desired.

What we offer
The degree of employment is 60% and the salary is approximately 45,000 CHF per year. Research and travel funds are available. The position is provisionally limited to three years with the possibility of extension.

Place of work
Plattenstr. 32, 8032 Zurich

Start of employment
Asap, to be negotiated. Application deadline February 7, 2021

Questions, application and more info
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Application: https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/phd-student/bc1b4ac8-2797-4266-90f4-f582e4dda80a

Senior Lecturer post doc - Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

Möchten Sie einen wichtigen Schritt in Ihrer wissenschaftlichen Karriere setzen? Dann finden Sie bei uns beste Rahmenbedingungen dafür!

Die WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) ist die zweitgrößte Wirtschaftsuniversität der Europäischen Union mit rund 2.400 Mitarbeiter/inne/n in Forschung, Lehre und Verwaltung und mehr als 23.000 Studierenden. Als Arbeitsplatz bieten wir einen architektonisch herausragenden, modernen Campus in der Nähe des Wiener Praters. Zur Verstärkung unseres Teams im Department für Finance, Accounting and Statistics besetzen wir zum ehestmöglichen Zeitpunkt ersatzmäßig befristet bis 31.12.2025 eine Stelle als

Senior Lecturer post doc

Teilzeit, 30 Stunden/Woche

Ihr Aufgabenbereich

• Lehre im Bereich Finance in den englischsprachigen Lehrveranstaltungen der Spezialisierung Finance: Market, Institutions and Instruments in den Bachelorprogrammen der WU und des deutschsprachigen Masterprogramms Finanzwirtschaft und Rechnungswesen, im Ausmaß von 9 Semesterwochenstunden
• Planung, Entwicklung und Evaluation von Lehrveranstaltungen
• Koordination von internen und externen Lehrenden
• Prüfungsorganisation und -durchführung sowie Qualitätssicherung von Prüfungen
• Entwicklung und Qualitätsmanagement von multimedialen Lehr-/Lernmaterialien
• Betreuung von Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten
• Aufbau und Weiterentwicklung (fach-)didaktischer Expertise (z.B. Besuch von Konferenzen)
• Aufrechterhalten eines forschungsnahen Wissenstands im Bereich Finanzwirtschaft zur Qualitätssicherung der oben definierten Lehrverpflichtung sowie Betreuungsleistungen
• Fachliche und didaktische Betreuung von Fachtutor/inn/en im Fach Finance

Ihr Profil

• Abgeschlossenes Doktorats- bzw. PhD-Studium der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften mit Schwerpunkt Finanzwirtschaft bzw. gleichzuhaltende Qualifikation
• Erfahrungen in Lehre und Lehradministration an tertiären Bildungseinrichtungen
• Erfahrung mit distance learning und der Gestaltung von Lernumgebungen
• Gute didaktische Fähigkeiten
• Gute Kenntnisse in Finanzwirtschaft
• Ausgezeichnete Englisch- und Deutschkenntnisse
• Gute Kenntnisse im Bereich quantitativer und analytischer Methoden
• Gute IT-Anwendungskenntnisse
• Ausgeprägte Kommunikations- und Organisationsfähigkeit
• Erfahrung an fachdidaktischen Fragestellungen

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Call for Papers: Non-standard Issues in Business Financing, JBE Special Issue

UPDATE:

Editors:

Wolfgang Breuer, Professor, School of Business and Economics, RTWH Aachen University

Andreas Pfingsten, Professor, Finance Center Münster, School of Business and Economics, WWU Münster

Aim of the Special Issue:

The Journal of Business Economics has a long-lived tradition of publishing scholarly finance articles in its regular issues. These are occasionally supplemented by special issues on particular topics, most recently venture capital and private equity financing (2018) and digital finance and financial literacy (2017). For the next special issue, we are actively soliciting contributions investigating business financing beyond plain vanilla loans, bonds, and common stock as basic types of debt financing and equity financing, respectively.

While the seminal paper of Modigliani and Miller (1958) solely focused on the issue of optimizing firm capital structure by choosing a suitable leverage ratio, theoretical and empirical work in the field of corporate finance has extended since then to a broad scope of much more elaborated details. For this special issue, we are interested in all such facets highlighting that there is more about company finance than simply choosing an adequate mixture of loans, bonds, and common stock.

For many firms, leasing is an important alternative or complement to bank lending. While there exists quite some research on both instruments separately, it seems less well understood which factors drive the choice between different contract types, in particular from a credit risk perspective. Similarly, liquidity combined with default risk mitigation can be obtained via factoring, but also via securitization, and again the reasons behind the choice deserve further attention.

Typically, firms borrow in home currency, but other currencies are sometimes chosen, e.g. when FX payments are due or as FX hedging. The occurrence of cryptocurrencies, commonly traded on platforms, opens new alternatives. Not being legal tender is just one of their features worth an in-depth analysis. Platform is also an important keyword when it comes to crowdfunding and tokenization. They may serve several purposes and come in different institutional settings.

Some businesses have to comply with special restrictions when optimizing their cost of capital. Banks’ regulatory capital requirements, providing a rationale for contingent convertible bonds, are one case in point, Shariah-compliant bonds of Islamic firms are another.

In addition to a potential analysis of non-standard financial instruments, we are also interested in papers examining non-standard situations of financing as, e.g., during or in the aftermath of a global pandemic like the current one. Moreover, as a third dimension, papers are also welcome which make use of non-standard ways of analysis, in particular, by relying on methods from the quickly growing fields of textual analyses and/or machine learning.

Summing up, we cordially invite submissions investigating under-researched financial instruments and innovative financial markets, unusual financing situations or the application of new methodological approaches. As partially indicated above, topics may include, but are not limited to,

• comparisons between leasing contracts and loan contracts,
• securitization, e.g. as an alternative to factoring,
• scope and limits of cryptocurrency platforms as funding sources,
• opportunities and threats of crowdfunding,
• impact of tokenization on business finance,
• contingent convertible bonds as regulatory bank capital,
• past and future role of Islamic finance,
• the financial implications of the Covid-19 pandemic
• the value-added by applying machine learning algorithms for financial analyses
• ...

Theoretical and empirical papers with a clear quantitative focus are both welcome. Empirical papers should be based on theoretically derived hypotheses and state-of-the-art hypotheses testing. Please note that simple replications of empirical studies from the US or the UK without a sound justification typically do not qualify for this special issue.

Papers must be written in English and must not contain any reference to the identity of the authors.

Please submit your papers by 06/30/2021 via our online submission system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jbec/Default.aspx. Please do not forget to mention the title of this special issue in your letter to the editor. Your papers must not have been published previously. Submitted papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed and may be published in a special issue of the Journal of Business Economics at the end of 2022. Author guidelines are available at:
http://www.springer.com/11573.

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in - FernUni in Hagen (verlängerte Ausschreibungsfrist)

Als einzige staatliche Fernuniversität im deutschen Sprachraum sind wir seit mehr als 40 Jahren erfahren im lebensbegleitenden und lebenslangen Lernen. Dabei eröffnen wir unseren Studierenden flexible Studienmöglichkeiten auf Basis eines Blended-Learning-Studienmodells.

An unseren fünf Fakultäten entwickeln wir mit fachbezogener und fachübergreifender Forschung zukunftsweisende Lösungen.

Das Team am Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Statistik lehrt und forscht zu Themen der empirischen Finanzmarktökonometrie und der Zeitreihenanalyse für makroökonomische und energiewirtschaftliche Anwendungen.

Wenn Sie an der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Statistik, ab dem 01.04.2021 diese Aufgaben mitgestalten möchten, dann bewerben Sie sich auf die Stelle als

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