Summer 2011: Focus on Risk Management

Additional Research and Related Content

Videos: Smith Business Close-Up Segments

Accounting Clues to the Financial Crisis
With the economy still recovering from the burst of the housing bubble and the financial crisis, experts are combing the period before the crisis and after for all the clues that could help avoid similar economic problems in the future. According to new research, accounting numbers hold big clues to how the credit default market functions – both before and after the crisis.

Managing a Volatile Supply Chain
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Sandor Boyson, research professor and co-director of the Supply Chain Management Center, discusses the new risks for today’s supply chains and how organization can deal with volatility.

Events

Upcoming: Oct. 5-6, 2011
Conference on Systemic Risk and Data Issues, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, D.C.
The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Salomon Center at NYU’s Stern School of Business, Fisher Center at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Center for Financial Markets at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business partner to host a conference to delve into systemic risk and data in the financial sector.

Risk was the hot topic at the Inaugural Smith School and IBM Business Analytics Workshop
Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and IBM, the daylong workshop this past spring consisted of topics ranging from Department of Homeland Security risk, to aviation safety, to fraud.

Chief Risk Officer Speaker Series
Center for Financial Policy and PRMIA Team-Up to Host Risk Management Leaders in NYC
The Center for Financial Policy and the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA) hosted an intimate dinner event for financial services industry leaders in New York City at A Voce Restaurant on April 21st. Participants engaged in a dialogue about risk and regulatory issues within the financial services sector. Past events in the series

Research Roundup 

Forthcoming Research

• Corporate Risk Management: Integrating Liquidity, Hedging, and Operating Policies

Working Papers

• Systemic Risk and Network Formation in the Interbank Market

White Papers

• Anatomy of Risk Management Practices in the Mortgage Industry: Lessons for the Future
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Presentations

• Private Mortgage-Backed Securitization Under Dodd-Frank, GSE Reform and Beyond
• Risk Management Implications of the Dodd-Frank Act

Get the latest risk management research information at the Center for Financial Policy's website