The FDIC's Center for Financial Research (CFR) funds selected research proposals in the amount of $10,000 each for papers related to the Center’s research areas of interest. Proposals can range from abstracts to finished papers. The CFR’s mission is to support new research. Finished papers are not considered for funding. Proposals will be selected by the CFR program coordinators and co-directors, who are listed at http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/cfr/people.html#pr.

The Center’s research areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Consumer Finance and Credit Issues
• Deposit Insurance
• Risk Measurement
• Corporate Finance
• Policy and Regulation
• Bank Performance and the Economy
• Systemic Risk Issues

Additional details about relevant topics appear below.

An important component of the Center's research funding involves the presentation of work-in-progress at the CFR Workshop in Washington, DC in early December 2009. Travel and lodging expenses will be reimbursed for one author of each paper, according to normal FDIC travel policies. Authors present their papers and benefit from comments offered by attending CFR Research Coordinators, FDIC staff, other CFR funding recipients, and a limited number of interested professionals from the Washington area. Funded proposals, when completed, are included in the FDIC CFR Working Paper Series: http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/cfr/workingpapers.html A final paper suitable for dissemination in the CFR Working Paper Series should be completed by the end of the 2010 calendar year.

Please send proposals and a c.v. for each author as email attachments to CallForPapers@fdic.gov. Label the files (preferably in Adobe PDF format) as:

Yourname_proposal.pdf
Yourname_cv.pdf
Where "Yourname" is the name of the corresponding author.

A mailbox for submissions will open January 23, 2009

Submission deadline: March 31, 2009

Notification date: early May 2009

Workshop date: early December 2009