Seminars and Events

We organise regular meetings/workshops/presentations and international symposia on various topics. We also explore and encourage research activities between EMG and other international research centres and financial organisations. Please approach us if you would like to organise a joint event.

Upcoming events

EMG is in the process of organsing another event and will announce it shortly.

Past Events

Past EMG events

  • Emerging Markets Group - European Central Bank workshop on The Open Economy and Climate Change – Friday 15th September 2023
    Guest speaker: Galina Hale, Professor of Economics UC Santa Cruz (UCSC), Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Program director at Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA), Co-director at Center for Analytical Finance (CAFIN) at UCSC.
    See Private Financing of Climate Solutions Keynote from Galina Hale.
  • Emerging Markets in a Globalising World – Wednesday 24th November 2021 
    Speakers: Dr Jonathan Ostry, Deputy Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the IMF; Geert Bekaert, Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

Jonathan gave an overview of the achievements of EMG and suggested a research agenda for Emerging Markets based on his experience at the IMF. Geert talked about whether the emerging markets can still be differentiated from developed markets, constituting a separate asset class in the current globalised world; what other emerging market asset classes are available to global investors beyond equities, such as currencies and corporate bonds with implications for portfolio diversification.

Furthermore; the proceedings have been recorded. You can approach Professor Phylaktis if you would like the link to the recorded proceedings.

  • EMG-ECB Workshop on International Capital Flows: Drivers and Policy Responses 3-4 May 2018. Guest Speakers: Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Deputy Director at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, and Frank Warnock, James C. Wheat Jr Professor and Head of Global Economies and Markets at Darden Business School
  • EMG-ECB Workshop on "Global Liquidity and its international implications"
    22 April 2016
    Guest speaker: Dr Linda Goldberg from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • 4th EMG Conference on "Emerging Markets Finance"
    8th-9th May 2014
    EMG and the European Central Bank have organised the 4th Annual EMG conference on Emerging Markets Finance in London on 8 and 9 May 2014. The conference was attended by academics, practitioners and policy makers from 19 countries. 
    Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the Journal of International Money and Finance edited by Kate Phylaktis and Kees Koedijk. 
    Keynote Speakers were: Viral Acharya, Starr Professor of Economics, Leonard N. Stern School of Business Kaufman Management Centre; and Hélène Rey, Professor of Economics, London Business School. Bilal Hafeez, Head of Global FX Strategy, Deutsche Bank delivered hetafter dinner speech
    The Best Paper Award sponsored by Blackrock went to Alexander Popov from the European Central Bank for his paper "Credit constraints, equity market liberalization, and growth rate asymmetry". 
    Some highlights of the conference are captured in the following photo gallery.
  • EMG Workshop on "International Capital Flows and the Global Economy"
    19th April 2013
    Guest speaker was Andrew Karolyi Professor of Finance, Co-Director of Emerging Markets Institute, Alumni Professor in Asset Management, S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, USA
  • 5th EMG Workshop on Microstructure of Financial Markets
    3-4 May 2012
    The workshop was jointly organised with Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) and the ESRC 
    Guest speaker: Joel Hasbrouck, Kenneth G. Langone Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Finance,Stern School of Business, New York University
  • EMG Workshop on Global Linkages and Financial Crises
    27 April 2012
    Guest speaker:Geert Bekaert Leon G Cooperman Professor of Finance, Columbia Business School, New York
  • 3rd EMG Conference on "Emerging Markets Finance"
    5-6 May 2011
    Keynote Speakers:Dr Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Senior Research Manager, Finance and Private Sector Development, Development Research Group (DECRG) The World Bank, and Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. 
    The conference was sponsored by EFG Eurobank Ergasias London, ESRC, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Bayes Business School (formerly Cass). 
    Open image gallery
  • 4th EMG Workshop on Microstructure of Financial Markets
    7 May 2010
    Guest speaker: Kenneth Froot, André R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration.
  • 3rd EMG Workshop on Microstructure of Financial Markets
    1 May 2009
    Guest speaker: Tarun Chordia, Professor of Finance, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
  • 2nd EMG Conference on "Emerging Markets Finance"
    15 - 16 May 2008
    Keynote speakers: Campbell R. Harvey, Duke University, USA and Stijn Claessens, International Monetary Fund, USA
    The conference was sponsored by the ESRC, the IMF and the Journal of International Money and Finance. A selection of papers will be in a Special Issue of the Journal of International Money and Finance.
  • International Equity Market Comovements and Contagion
    11 May 2007
    Guest speaker is Geert Bekaert Leon G Cooperman, Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School, USA.
  • 2nd EMG Workshop on Microstructure of Capital Markets
    8 December 2006Guest speaker: Maureen O'Hara, Purcell Professor of Finance, Cornell University.
  • Transition Economies
    29 September 2006
    This workshop was organised in collaboration with the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Guest Speaker was Eswar Prasad, Division Chief, Financial Studies Division, IMF & Tolani Senior Professor at Cornell University.
  • 1st EMG Workshop on Microstructure of Financial Markets
    9 December 2005
    Guest speaker: Martin Evans, Georgetown University, USA.
  • Emerging Markets Finance
    5-6 May 2005
    Guest speakers: Geert Bakaert, Leon G. Cooperman, Professor of Finance, Columbia Business School, USA and Jim Lothian, Professor of Finance, Fordham University. A selection of papers were published in a Special Issue of the Journal of International Money and Finance, 25 (3), 2006.
  • Transition Economies
    1 October 2004
    This workshop was organised in collaboration with the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
  • Portfolio Diversification and Contagion
    21 May 2004
    Guest Speaker: Roberto Rigobon from Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA.
  • Emerging Capital Markets
    30 January 2004
    Guest speaker: Andrew Karolyi from Ohio State University.
  • Emerging Markets Group (EMG)
    29 November 2002
    Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) and Money, Macro and Finance Research Group (MMF) jointly organised a workshop on the 29th November 2002 on Emerging Capital Markets. Invited speakers were Geert Bekaert from Columbia University, Gianluigi Ferruci from the Bank of England and Kate Phylaktis from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass).

External events

  • 2024 European Economic Association Meeting will be held on  26 - 31 August 2024 in Rotterdam.
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  • The 2024 FMA Annual Meeting will be held on  16 - 19  October 2024 in  Grapevine Texas.
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  • The 2024 Annual Meeting will be held on January 5–7, 2024 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) in San Antonio, Texas.
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  • The 2024 American Finance Association (AFA) Annual Meeting will be held January 5-7, 2024 (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) in San Antonio, Texas.
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  • The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Western Finance Association (WFA) will be held on  27 - 30 June, 2024 at Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki, Honolulu.
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  • The 2024 European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Annual Meeting will be held on 26 June - 29 June, 2024 at ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
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  • The 2024 FMA European Conference will be held on 12 June - 14 July, 2024 at Turin, Italy.
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  • The 2024 World Finance Conference will be held on 30th July - 2 August, 2024 at the European University, Cyprus.
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  • The 60th EFA Annual Meeting will be held on 10 - 13 April, 2024 at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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  • The 2024 FMA Annual Meeting will be held on 16 - 19 October, 2024 at Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel & Convention Center, 1501 Gaylord Trail Grapevine, TX 76051, United States .
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Bayes seminars

The Finance Research Workshops give staff at Bayes an opportunity to discuss their research. It is available to staff, PhD students and people from outside the university. Please click on the link for further information or contact Ana-Maria Fuertes on 020 7040 0186.

The Finance Research Seminars are available to staff, PhD students and people from outside the university and are given by people from other universities around the world. Please click on the link for further information or contact Barbara Casu (Head of Faculty of Finance).