SKEMA brings together leading finance researchers and policymakers

On 8 and 9 June, SKEMA Business School’s Sophia Antipolis campus will host a high-level international academic and policy conference dedicated to the organisation and regulation of financial markets. The event will bring together leading researchers and senior representatives from major financial institutions.

On 8 and 9 June, SKEMA Business School’s Sophia Antipolis campus will host a high-level international academic and policy conference dedicated to “The Industrial Organization of Financial Markets”.

The event will bring together leading global finance specialists from institutions including Princeton University, Columbia Business School, The Wharton School, Toulouse School of Economics, HEC Paris, the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements, alongside academics from SKEMA Business School.

Against a backdrop of renewed geopolitical tensions, the rise of instant payments, the emergence of financial Big Tech players and ongoing debates around banking regulation, the conference will explore how market structures shape the efficiency of the global financial system.

Organised by SKEMA’s Finance & Accounting Insights on Risk and Regulation (FAIRR) research centre, headed by Fabio Bertoni, the event aims to bridge academic research and public policymaking around a central question: how can increasingly complex and technology-driven financial markets be regulated without stifling innovation?

Researchers from the world’s leading universities and financial institutions

Among the highlights will be a keynote address by Jakub Kastl, Professor at Princeton University and an internationally recognised authority on market mechanisms.

The conference will also welcome Milena Wittwer, Professor at Columbia Business School and a specialist in imperfect competition in financial markets, and Catherine Casamatta, Professor at Toulouse School of Economics, whose work focuses on interactions between traditional banks and technology firms.

Beyond the academic presentations, the conference reflects the growing role of business schools as global platforms for producing expertise capable of informing public policy and economic regulation.

When research shapes financial regulation

Long regarded as a field reserved for central banks, financial regulation has become a matter of economic sovereignty, geopolitical stability and technological competitiveness. It is also an area in which leading business schools are playing an increasing role.

One of the most anticipated moments of the conference will be the plenary session entitled “The Role of Research in Designing Financial Regulations”. It will be chaired by Florencio Lopez de Silanes, Professor of Finance at SKEMA and Strategic Director of the school’s PhD in Management programme.

The panel discussion will bring together:

• Vicky White, Executive Director for Prudential Policy at the Bank of England;
• Olivier Garnier, former General Director for Statistics, Economics and International Affairs at Banque de France and member of the governing board of Institut Montaigne;
• Rodrigo Coelho, Head of the Financial Stability Institute at the Bank for International Settlements.

Together, they will discuss the growing role played by researchers in the design of monetary, prudential and financial supervision policies.

The sessions also reflect SKEMA’s ambition to strengthen its international academic positioning in finance, economics and public policy by bringing world-class researchers together on its campus.

About SKEMA’s FAIRR research centre

SKEMA’s Finance & Accounting Insights on Risk and Regulation research centre is dedicated to producing high-level academic research in finance and accounting.

The centre brings together more than 30 faculty members in finance and accounting, as well as PhD candidates. FAIRR members focus on areas including digital finance, entrepreneurial finance, governance, financial intermediation, corporate restructuring, disclosure, financial regulation and household finance, alongside other topics related to corporate finance, market finance and accounting.

Their research is published in leading academic journals in finance and accounting.