Ethics

Call for Papers: Psychology and Risk Management

By Adam Kolber

The following call for papers was posted to SSRN:

CALL FOR PAPERS 2009
    
        "HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY, RISKY BEHAVIOR, AND RISK MANAGEMENT"
    
                 Annual Conference on Risk Management
                       and Corporate Governance
    
        Conducted by: Center for Integrated Risk Management and
            Corporate Governance, Loyola University Chicago
    
                          April 16-17, 2009
    
   

We seek academically oriented, high quality studies of
     issues related to the influence of human psychology on any
     aspect of the theory or practice of risk management. All
     disciplines are welcome to participate as we seek to create
     a multi-disciplinary perspective on this timely topic. We
     are especially interested in attracting contributions from
     finance, economics, management, law, business ethics,
     psychology and sociology.
    
    
     TOPICS:
    
     Likely topics might include, but are not in any way limited
     to: board behavior and business risk; customer and client
     response to the perceived risk of firms; risk-seeking
     behavior and compensation structures; valuation of positive
     and negative cash flows; management behavior in financial
     crises; culture and risk; trends, fads and the herd
     instinct in risk assessment and management; human
     psychology and tail risk; risk amplification; tipping
     points in risk assessment; risk-seeking behavior in private
     versus public companies; management accountability for
     behavior risk; law and behavioral risk; and benchmarking
     behavioral risk.
    
    
     FURTHER INFORMATION:
    
     The papers must be in English and an ideal length is 25-30
     pages. Papers presented at the conference will be published
     in our monograph series: the Loyola Series in Risk
     Management and Corporate Governance, published as an annual
     monograph by Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. Agreement to
     publication in the monograph is a condition of
     presentation. Travel grants and honoraria will be available
     for paper presenters.
    
    
     SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
    
     Please submit a two-page abstract by December 1, 2008 and
     final papers no later than February 1, 2009. (The abstract
     serves as an expression of interest, while invitations to
     the conference will be based on final and complete papers.)
    
     Submit via email:
    
     Email:         MAILTO:rkolb@luc.edu
     CONTACT:       Robert W. Kolb
                    Professor of Finance
                    Considine Chair of Applied Ethics
                    School of Business
                    Loyola University Chicago
                    Chicago, IL 60611
    
     Please see our Web site for additional details:

                    http://www.LUC.edu/risk

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).