Call for Papers: Networks in Modern Financial and Payments Systems

The event aims at providing a forum to discuss the role of networks in the modern financial and payment systems and to evaluate the systemic changes that shaped the payments world, including higher awareness of technological innovations and interconnectedness, peer-to-peer finance, and digital currencies. The intention is further to inspire research collaboration and working groups between the economic fields of banking, networks, and payments.

Topics of interest include:

• Networks in traditional finance and payments
  • interconnectedness in wholesale and retail payment systems
  • interaction of credit and payments in financial networks
  • networks in interbank and over-the-counter markets
  • complexity, contagion, and systemic risk
• Networks in new financial and payment systems
  • financial aspects of social networks
  • network and peer-to-peer lending
  • network in the crypto space
  • peer externalities in adoption of financial innovations (e.g., central bank digital currency)
• Methodological advancement in financial networks research
  • new models and analytical tools
  • new computational methods (e.g., AI, quantum, textual analysis)

Confirmed Keynote Speaker

Rodney Garratt (Bank for international Settlements/University of California, Santa Barbara)

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit theoretical, empirical, and experimental papers on the above-mentioned topics. Submissions must consist of either a full paper (preferred) or an extended abstract and should be sent in PDF format to networks_payments_2023@bank-banque-canada.ca. The submission deadline is 17 March 2023. Authors of accepted papers will be notified in early April 2023. The conference program will include a discussant for each paper.

Travel Expenses

The Bank of Canada will partially or fully reimburse travel expenses for academic presenters and discussants.