Featuring research papers related to the central theme of financial crises: causes, characteristics and effects.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• Crisis topology; asset pricing bubbles, mispricing, contagion, counterparty risk, transparency.
• Prediction of crises, indicators, risk measures, ratings, performance measures.
• Market regulation, transparency, innovation, disclosure, liquidity, global regulation, governance issues.
• Management of the crisis, monetary policy, guarantees, market distortions and spreads, implications for investment and superannuation.
• Economic consequences, budgetary policy, targeted spending, fiscal implications, social implications, with special emphasis on the Australian and Western Australian economies.
• Accounting issues, marking to market, fair values, accounting Implications.