The Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) is a global society of research scholars dedicated to the purpose of stimulating, promoting and disseminating research in financial intermediation. Specifically, the society: (1) maintains a website that provides information on conferences on financial intermediation topics worldwide, outlines of doctoral courses taught at various schools and research papers; (2) organizes conferences on financial intermediation and related topics; and (3) advises the publisher on the appointment of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Financial Intermediation.
The main goal of the society is to provide a forum for those interested in financial intermediation and corporate finance research worldwide, to be able to have ready access to each others research and to be able to communicate and coordinate more efficiently on a variety of issues, including the organization of conferences. Our hope is also to bridge the gaps that exist at present in the flow of ideas across the different continents, and to also encourage research in emerging markets into the mainstream of financial intermediation and corporate finance research.
Officers:
Mark Flannery, PresidentAnjan Thakor, Immediate Past President
Franklin Allen, Past President
Allen Berger, Secretary/Treasurer
Directors:
Patrick BoltonStuart Greenbaum
Akiyoshi Horiuchi
Jan Pieter Krahnen
Loretta J. Mester
Maureen O'Hara
Financial Intermediation Research Society By-Laws