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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:00:06 -0500
From: Ed Tatum <tatume(a)rider.wharton.upenn.edu>
Organization: Financial Institutions Center
To: wwwor(a)mat.gsia.cmu.edu
Subject: PERFORMANCE OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
While the efficiency of the capital markets is widely and extensively
studied, little has been done to study the efficiency of the
Institutions that operate in these markets. What are the forms of
efficiency or lack thereof of a financial Institution? What are the
drivers of performance that enhance or inhibit efficiency? These
issues have only recently been under the scrutiny of scholarly inquiry
motivated by the increased competitiveness with the globalization of the
financial markets and the increased use of information technology in
the delivery of financial services. Serious inroads have been made in
providing answers to these questions.
CONFERENCE FOCUS:
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars from around
the world in economics, finance, operations management, marketing and
other disciplines to describe and understand the performance of
financial institutions. The conference is tentatively structured as
follows:
Session 1: Institutional Efficiency: What Is It?
This session explores alternative notions of efficiency, including
productivity, profitability, and quality of the services delivered by
financial institutions.
Session 2: Institutional Efficiency: What Drives It?
Papers in this session explore the drivers of institution efficiency,
including scale and scope economies, technology, human resource
practices, etc.
Session 3: Efficiency of the Financial Intermediation Process: What Is
It?
This session defines alternative notions of efficiency of the financial
intermediation process, looking particularly at risk management,
asset-liability matching, and intertemporal smoothing of fund flows.
Session 4: Efficiency of the Financial Intermediation Process: What
Drives It?
Given the various notions of intermediation efficiency, this session
explores the characteristics of the market that limit the efficiency of
financial intermediaries, including regulation and institutional
structure.
Session 5: Innovations in Financial Services: Alternative Institutions
This session explores the impact of innovations in the structure of the
financial services market and the range of services offered to the
consumer, including the rise of mutual funds and other non-bank
competitors, on the efficiency of the financial system.
Session 6: Innovations in Financial Services: Alternative Channels
The rise of new distribution channels, enabled by technology, will be
considered in this session along with their impact on the efficiency of
institutions, the intermediation process and the end consumer.
Session 7: International Studies of Efficiency
Papers in this session study the efficiency, as described above, within
and between countries.
CONFERENCE DATE AND LOCATION:
The conference will be held May 8-10, 1997, at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:
Name: Dr. Patrick Harker
E-mail: harker(a)opim.wharton.upenn.edu
Postal: Financial Institutions Center, The Wharton School, 3301
Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA 19104-6367, U.S.A.
Name: Dr. Stavros A. Zenios
E-mail: zenioss(a)atlas.pba.ucy.ac.cy
Postal: School of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus, 75
Kallipoleos Street, P.O. Box 537, CY 1678, Nicosia, CYPRUS
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCESS:
To participate, please send five copies of your article to the address
below no later than February 28, 1997. Authors of accepted articles will
be notified by March 15, 1997. If you have any questions, please feel
free to contact the organizers. Submit all manuscripts to:
All papers to be presented will be rigorously refereed and placed in an
edited volume to be published by Cambridge University Press. A select
group of papers will be invited to be published in a special issue of
Management Science.
CONTACT:
Submit all manuscripts to:
Postal: Performance of Financial Institutions, Financial Institutions
Center, The Wharton School, 434 Vance Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6301,
U.S.A.
Please see our home page at
http://wrdsenet.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/wfic/new.html for further details.
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