The Workshop will take place on September 8-9, 2016. Please indicate your anticipated arrival and departure dates below. We will use this as a placeholder for your hotel booking, which can be modified at a later date. We will coordinate with the hotel on your behalf. Please note that you are free to submit a… more »
CEAR has a Seminar Room, a Collaboration Room, and the Ken Black Executive Board Room which can be booked for use. There are some restrictions on who may book these rooms, and for what purpose; that documentation can be viewed under the FAQs below. All requests for CEAR Room reservations should be made through the… more »
CEAR Fellows are researchers that have an affiliation with CEAR. They will be a mixture of GSU and non-GSU researchers. The primary function of CEAR Fellows is participation in the CEAR Workshop Series, in person and virtually. CEAR will fund travel expenses for Fellows to attend up to one or two CEAR… more »
Large-scale projects are more open-ended than small-scale projects, at least initially, and designed to fill a gap in large-scale funding opportunities generally available. Funding can be in the range of $50,000 to $200,000, and it is expected that there will only be one such project every few years. They are expected to evolve from several… more »
Small-scale projects should be for budgets up to $5,000. This support is open to faculty and graduate students in the each of the constituent departments of CEAR (Accounting, Economics, Finance, and RMI) and researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The topic should clearly be risk-related, and should not be for generic research support… more »
CEAR is willing to provide support for workshops on specific risk-related topics. The general criteria for good workshop proposals are identical to those for CEAR Research Projects - General.
Workshops will typically involve inviting 5-10 scholars from outside GSU to attend the workshop. In appropriate cases, and on an ad hoc basis, a small… more »
CEAR is willing to provide travel support on an ad-hoc basis for graduate students to attend academic conferences to present a paper. This support is only for graduate students in each of the constituent departments of CEAR (Accounting, Economics, Finance, and RMI). It is recognized that such presentations will often fall outside of the normal… more »
CEAR is willing to provide financial support for third to fifth year graduate students in each of the constituent departments of CEAR (Accounting, Economics, Finance, and RMI) that have committed to write a thesis that has a significant “risk” component. CEAR is also willing to provide support, on an ad hoc basis, for first or… more »
Starting FY12 there will be an Annual CEAR Conference in Atlanta each year, with responsibility for organization resting primarily with the constituent departments of CEAR (Accounting, Economics, Finance, and RMI) or CEAR-associated researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Responsibility will rotate annually from department to department, to be decided by the CEAR Advisory… more »