Consumer Law

Fed Call for Papers

By Alan White

The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Payment Cards Center has issues a call for papers for the fifth edition of its biennial conference on Recent Developments in Consumer Credit and Payments.  Here are the details:

This year's conference will be held at the bank on September 24-25, 2009.

The submission deadline for complete papers is June 15, 2009 (see below for submission procedures)

Once again, this conference is a joint endeavor by our bank's Research Department and the Payment Cards Center.

The dramatic deterioration in the markets for consumer credit and mortgages highlights the pressing need for original research in these areas and for a continuing dialogue among researchers and policymakers.

Theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

    Personal bankruptcy and consumer default
    Mortgage lending and default
    Regulation of consumer credit and mortgage markets
    Contractual and informational issues in consumer credit markets
    Credit scoring and credit reporting agencies
    Securitization of consumer debt
    Pricing and efficiency of retail payment services
    Consumer payments networks and their regulation

Conference organizers will provide accommodations and partial financial support for travel expenses to one author of each paper accepted for the program.

Please e-mail an electronic copy (PDF or MS Word) of your paper by June 15, 2009 to: phil_pcc09@phil.frb.org.

For additional information and a pdf copy of the call for papers, please visit our conference website at
http://www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/events/2009/consumer-credit-and-payments/index.cfm.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).