Deadline: 15 September 2013
Open to: citizens or residents/students in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine
Prizes: 5,000€
Description
The financial, economic and sovereign debt crisis has, among many other things, caused a severe setback for banking and financial market integration in the European Union and the Euro Area. Interbank money markets have become substantially less liquid, cross-border lending came to a virtual halt during acute crisis periods, requiring the Eurosystem to step in as an intermediary.
Banks are suffering substantial losses due to crisis and recession-related developments, forcing them to downsize and restructure their national and crossborder operations. In an effort to prevent a repetition of the crisis, a substantial body of new regulation has been designed at the international and EU levels, and is now being implemented by national regulators and gradually fulfilled by banks and other financial intermediaries.
The First SUERF/UniCredit & Universities Foundation Research Prize seeks papers of high scientific quality on topic “Banking and Financial Markets between Integration and Segmentation after the Crisis”, which analyse the driving forces, interrelationships and possible consequences of the above developments with respect to the integration or segmentation of banking and financial markets in Europe. The papers may be both of a theoretical or empirical nature, their research question and conclusions should have clear policy relevance.
Eligibility
Competition is open to authors and co-authors who are citizens or residents/students in the EEA, Switzerland, and other countries in which UniCredit is present (Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine) and born after 15 September 1978.
Prizes
Prizes of EUR 5,000 gross will be awarded to up to two outstanding papers on topics related to “Banking and Financial Markets between Integration and Segmentation after the Crisis”. The winning papers will be presented at a short SUERF/UniCredit & Universities Foundation Seminar to be held in Vienna on 12 December, 2013. Subject to agreement by the authors, SUERF and the UniCredit & Universities Foundation the papers may be published on the organisers’ respective websites.
Application
Submissions should be submitted after registration on the website through the online submission form in PDF format by 15 September 2013, in English. Applications should be accompanied by brief curriculum vitae including the candidate’s date of birth and a copy of current identity documents that confirm the author’s/authors’ date of birth(s) and eligibility. The prize is open to papers that have been finalised within the last 12 months prior to the deadline for submissions.
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