Central Bank Research Conference On Risk Measurement - Brief Article

Federal Reserve Bulletin, May, 2001

The Joint Central Bank Research Conference on Risk Measurement and Systemic Risk will be held on March 7-8, 2002, at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. The conference is the third in a series.

The Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) will host the conference at the BIS in cooperation with the Bank of Japan, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the European Central Bank. The conference will focus on risk measurement and systemic risks from a central bank perspective. Conference organizers seek to bring together central bankers, market practitioners, and academics.

Those interested in presenting research papers should submit completed papers or extended abstracts to the BIS by the end of August 2001. Details can be obtained in the conference announcement and call for papers on the BIS web site: http:// www.bis.org/cgfs/cgfscfp2001.htm.> The CGFS is a central bank forum established by the governors of the Group of Ten central banks to monitor and examine issues related to financial markets and systems and to make appropriate policy recommendations.

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