CALL FOR PAPERS 2009
"Human Psychology, Risky Behavior, and Risk Management"
EVENT
Annual Conference on Risk Management and Corporate Governance
DATE
April 16-17, 2009
SYNOPSIS
We seek academically oriented, high quality studies of issues related to the influence of human psychology on any aspect of the theory or practice of risk management. All disciplines are welcome to participate as we seek to create a multi-disciplinary perspective on this timely topic. We are especially interested in attracting contributions from finance, economics, management, law, business ethics, psychology, and sociology.
TOPICS
Likely topics might include, but are not in any way limited to: board behavior and business risk; customer and client response to the perceived risk of firms; risk-seeking behavior and compensation structures; valuation of positive and negative cash flows; management behavior in financial crises; culture and risk; trends, fads and the herd instinct in risk assessment and management; human psychology and tail risk; risk amplification; tipping points in risk assessment; risk-seeking behavior in private versus public companies; management accountability for behavior risk; law and behavioral risk; and benchmarking behavioral risk.
SPECIFICATIONS
The papers must be
- In English
- An ideal length of 25-30 pages
Papers presented at the conference will be published in our monograph series: The Loyola Series in Risk Management and Corporate Governance, published as an annual monograph by Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. Agreement to publication in the monograph is a condition of presentation. Travel grants and honoraria will be available for paper presenters.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Please submit a two-page abstract by December 1, 2008 and final papers no later than February 1, 2009. (The abstract serves as an expression of interest, while invitations to the conference will be based on final and complete papers.)
Submit via e-mail (rkolb@luc.edu) to:
Robert W. Kolb, Professor of Finance, Considine Chair of Applied Ethics, School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60611