EMG Seminars and Events

• Geopolitical Risks: Implications for Asset Prices and Financial Stability - Thursday 11 September 2025

  Guest speaker: Dr Mahvash Qureshi, Assistant Director and Division Chief in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department.

  Geopolitical events can significantly influence financial asset prices and pose risks to macro-financial stability. This lecture will draw on insights from the IMF’s April 2025 Global Financial Stability Report to explore how different types of geopolitical shocks affect asset prices and transmit across borders through trade and financial linkages. She will also discuss whether investors price these risks, the implications for financial institutions, and policy measures to help safeguard financial stability in the face of rising geopolitical risks.

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• 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 24^th 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). 
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• 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).

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 Professor Sonia Falconieri(Head of Faculty of Finance).