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4th INFINITI Conference on International Finance, 12-13 June 2006


The Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) here at Trinity College Dublin
is pleased to announce the 4th INFINITI Conference 2006, centred on the theme of
“Measuring and Managing Contagion”.

The Keynote Speaker will be Mark Flannery, BankAmerica Eminent Scholar at the Warrington College of Business, University of Florida . Dušan Mramor, from the University of Ljubljana and previous Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia, will moderate a Special ‘Meet the Ministers' Roundtable Session on “Political Action in Financial Crises: Dampers or Amplifiers”. Peter Richmond, from Trinity College Dublin, will deliver an Invited Lecture on Econophysics of International Finance. See below for more information on each of our speakers and other invited special guests.

We are also pleased to have Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services and previous Minister of Finance of the Republic of Ireland), officially open the Conference on Monday, 12 June 2006.

Draft Conference Programme

Sunday, 11 June 2006, 1800-2000 hrs

Welcome Reception & Registration in the Crypt of Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin 8

Monday, 12 June 2006, 0900 hrs

Conference Begins in Trinity College Dublin , with Opening by EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy

Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 1745 hrs

All Sessions End

Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 1930 hrs

Conference Gala Dinner

The Draft Conference Programme has been released and the latest version may be downloaded from here . Please note that there are likely to be changes to the final printed version.

Register for the Conference

Academic Early Registration (prior to 12 May 2006 )

€275

Academic Late Registration (after 12 May 2006 )

€325

Commercial / Business Practitioner Registration Early Registration (prior to 12 May 2006)

€400

Commercial / Business Practitioner Registration Early Registration (after 12 May 2006)

€450

Special Offer (only valid prior to 12 May 2006) – for delegates who attended any one of the previous INFINITI Conferences or the Global Finance Conference 2005 at Trinity College Dublin

€225


Download an INFINITI Conference Booking Form by clicking here . Please note that these should be filled out and returned to the email address as indicated on the form.

Upon receipt of your booking form, you will be issued with an invoice. If you are paying by Bank Transfer or Bank Draft, the relevant information details will be included on the invoice. If you are paying by credit card, you will be sent a direct internet link whereby you can make your payment online. Early Registration rates will only apply to those who register prior to 12 May 2006. Authors should ensure that we are in receipt of their registration fees by 1 June 2006 in order to ensure inclusion in the final Conference Programme .

**Please note costs are all inclusive, including Welcome Reception, Gala Dinner, Conference Pack and refreshments.

**There is a strict no refund policy.

Journal of Multinational Financial Management Special Issue


A special issue of the Journal of Multinational Financial Management on the theme of Measuring and Managing Contagion” will be published in 2007 under the Guest Editorship of the Conference Chair, Brian Lucey. An edited volume, Econophysics: Linking Physics to Financial Market Analysis and Macroeconomic Modelling, will also be produced under the editorship of Brian Lucey, Peter Richmond and Jonathan Batten. Presenting authors at the Conference should (re-)submit their papers http://www.ees.elsevier.com/mulfinbetween 15 May and 30 June 2006, and papers should be named INFINITI2006_papername. Please note that the submission fee for the JMFM Special Issue is SEPARATE from the INFINITI Conference Registration Fee.

Keynote Speakers


Our keynote speaker, Professor Mark Flannery, is the BankAmerica Eminent Scholar in Finance at the Warrington College of Business, University of Florida . The Editor of Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Professor Flannery teaches corporate finance and financial management of financial institutions in the graduate program. His current research focuses on the information content of security prices. Professor Flannery has served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina , and as a visiting professor at the London Business School and the University of New South Wales . Professor Flannery is also Secretary of the Financial Intermediation Research Society.


Under the moderatorship of Professor Dušan Mramor a Special ‘Meet the Ministers' Roundtable Session on “Political Action in Financial Crises: Dampers or Amplifiers” will be held, with several ex-Ministers for Finance and Economics of several states. Professor Mramor served for 5 years as Chairman of the Slovene Securities and Exchange Commission and 3 years as Finance Minister of the Republic of Slovenia .  Presently, he is Professor of Finance at the University of Ljubljana.




Professor Peter Richmond is Professor of Physics at Trinity College Dublin. After an initial period in academia at the Australian National University , he moved to industry where he spent over 20 years initially in the food sector and latterly in financial services. Professor of Physics at Dublin since 1998, his research interests now lay in the area of risk and econophysics. He is also Chairman of COST P10 Action “Physics of Risk”.


Professor Janusz Holyst
will speak at the Conference in support of the econophysicists. Since 1998, Professor Holyst has been Professor of Physics in the Warsaw University of Technology. He has published widely in the area of non linear physics and econophysics and collaborates closely with several Institutes of Physics and Economics in Europe . He was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in Hanover from 1986-88 and during 1995 spent 6 months as an ACE-PHARE Fellow in the Institute for Applied Economic Research in Tuebingen. He is Chairman of the section “Physics in Economy and Social Sciences of the Polish Physical Society” and Vice-Chairman of COST P10 Action “Physics of Risk”.


Paul B Bennett is senior vice president and chief economist of the NYSE.   As chief economist and head of the Research department at the New York Stock Exchange, Paul Bennett is responsible for analytic support for the Exchange's various business and public-policy activities, and for support of academic and other professional research into equities market issues.  Before joining the NYSE in 2001, he was a senior officer and economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , where he had worked since 1978.  At the Fed, he headed the Capital Markets Research division, was editor of the Bank's research journal and, prior to that, vice president for Fedwire Funds and Securities Transfers, among other responsibilities.  He has published numerous papers on finance, economics, and securities markets in both academic and practitioner journals.

Travel & Accommodation

Delegates are asked to book their travel and accommodation as soon as possible due to the number of rock/pop concerts that will be held in Dublin during the weekend prior to the Conference. Aer Lingus ( http://www.aerlingus.com/) and Ryanair ( http://www.ryanair.com/) fly directly into Dublin from many cities throughout Europe .

As it is still term-time here at Trinity College Dublin, there are no on-campus rooms available and delegates may find the following links useful:

http://www.hotelclub.net/

http://www.hotel.com/

http://www.visitdublin.com/

Accommodation listings

Trinity College Dublin is located in the City Centre / Dublin 2 area.

Trinity College has a special arrangement with the O'Callaghan 4* Hotels in the area (the Davenport, Alexander, Mont Clare and Stephen's Green Hotels) and delegates wishing to book rooms at any of these hotels should contact the Conference Organiser, Linda Soriton.

Contact Information

Conference Organiser: Linda Soriton
School of Business
Trinity College

Conference Chair: Brian Lucey
School of Business
Trinity College

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