The International Center for Financial Research at the Lally School of Management & Technology
The International Center for Financial Research (ICFR) strives to foster high-quality research in the fields of corporate finance, financial intermediation, capital markets, risk analytics and financial engineering. The primary focus of the ICFR is to encourage research with a global exposure, aimed particularly at exploring effective management, growth and stability of individual business institutions and sectors as well as the financial and economic growth at local and regional levels around the world.
The International Center for Financial Research (ICFR) of the Lally School of Management and Technology has three distinct but related objectives:
- First, the ICFR’s mission is to encourage, support and share quality research in the areas of finance and capital markets with a specific focus on financial intermediation and innovation of financial products and technology. To support this mission, the ICFR sponsors conferences and seminars to encourage insightful discussions, drawing on the expertise and interests of academic and industry economists from around the world. The ICFR also hosts and supports the highly-regarded Journal of Financial Stability.
- The second mission of the ICFR is to reach out to and interact with industry, providing workshops and short training programs for executives on current financial topics, challenges and concerns.
- Finally, the ICFR supports scholarship and research activities of Lally’s most important constituencies, students at doctoral, masters and undergraduate levels.
The ICFR seeks to have a global impact, in support of the mission of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute while enhancing the worldwide visibility of the Lally School of Management and Technology as a premier business school. The ICFR’s focus on global financial conditions, stability and growth at this crucial juncture of world economic history uniquely positions the Center to enhance the Lally School’s efforts to enhance its stature in both academic and business communities as a recognized leader. The ICFR is currently actively involved in a variety of research areas, each directed by a Rensselaer faculty member: (a) Capital Markets and Financial Institutions, (b) Risk Management, Analytics, and Financial Engineering, (c) Corporate Finance and Governance, (d) Financial Reporting and Control and (e) Multidisciplinary Research.