12th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability"

The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association is organizing a workshop on “Challenges to Financial Stability” on August 24th and 25th, 2026, to be held in Halle (Saale). We aim to attract excellent theoretical and empirical papers from a broad range of financial economics and stability topics.

Who

Keynote Speaker: Vasso Ioannidou (Bayes Business School)

Where

IWH, conference room

Personal details

Vasso Ioannidou is Professor of Finance at Bayes Business School and Research Fellow in Financial Economics at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her research focuses on banking and corporate finance, with particular emphasis on bank behaviour, performance, and prudential regulation.

Call for papers

Without limiting the scope of topics, areas of particular interest are:

regulation and financial intermediation
corporate finance
law, politics and finance
monetary policy, inflation and financial resilience
macroprudential policy and real estate
financial networks and systemic risk
pricing of climate risk in financial markets
ecological hazards and the behaviour of firms and households
governance of financial firms and markets
private credit and risk transfer

Keynote speaker
Vasso Ioannidou (Bayes Business School)

There is no registration fee for presenters. Accommodation costs for presenters will be covered by the IWH and there is limited funding for travelling expenditure available for discussants upon request.

Paper Submission Procedure: Please submit papers and direct questions to FIN-FIRE@iwh-halle.de. The submission deadline is May 11^th, 2026.

We assume that by submitting your paper and personal data, you agree that this information will be used exclusively for purposes of conference planning. The data and your paper will be passed to the scientific committee for the review process. After the conference, these data will be deleted.