Since its establishment in 2001, the Frank J. Petrilli Center for Research in International Finance (CRIF) has garnered support throughout the research and corporate communities.  Over this four year span, participation in lectures has nearly doubled and endowment support has grown five-fold, while the center continues to disseminate high-quality international financial research to a large variety of end users.

CRIF Endowment Supporters

Frank J. Petrilli - CEO TD Waterhouse U.S.A.   Frank J. Petrilli is Chief Executive Officer of TD Waterhouse U.S.A.,  a unit of TD Waterhouse Group, Inc., one of the largest online financial services firms in the world with over 3.2 million active customer accounts.  In this role, Mr. Petrilli maintains overall responsibility for the firm’s U.S. strategic development and growth. Mr. Petrilli is responsible for many innovations, including the launch of online investing which currently accounts for almost 90% of U.S. trading volumes; the creation of TD Waterhouse Bank which provides an integrated banking/brokerage platform; and the formation of TD Waterhouse Asset Management, the firm’s money management division.

Affiliates

The Journal of International Money and Finance

Since its launch in 1982, Journal of International Money and Finance has built up a solid reputation as a high quality scholarly journal devoted to theoretical and empirical research in the fields of international monetary economics, international finance, and the rapidly developing overlap area between the two. CRIF's affiliation with JIMF has primarily been established through the efforts of CRIF Director, James R. Lothian, and CRIF Member, Cornelia McCarthy. Lothian and McCarthy serve as Editor and Associate Editor for JIMF. 

In addition to publishing six regular issues per year, JIMF has sponsored a series of conferences in the United States and abroad on selected topics in the areas of international finance and international monetary economics. These conferences all resulted in refereed special issues of the Journal.

“Exchange Rates,” Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands, 1997

“Perspectives on the Financial Crisis in Asia,” held at Fordham University, October 1998.

“Central Bank Operations: Auction Theory and Empirical Evidence,” co-sponsored with the Center for European Integration Studies at the University of Bonn, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Spain, and held at the University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, September 2000

“International Financial Integration,” co-sponsored with the Centre for Economic and International Studies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, and held at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy December 2001

“Regional and International Implications of the Financial Instability in Latin America,” co-sponsored with the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics, and held at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, April 2003.

“Banking, Development and Structural Change,” co-sponsored with the Bank of Finland and held in Helsinki, May 2003.

“The Euro Five Years On,” co-sponsored with the Frank J. Petrilli Center for Research in International Finance, the TransAtlantic Finance Institute and the Centre for Economic and International Studies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, and held at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, December 2003.*

“Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance” co-sponsored with the Economics Department of the University of Crete, and held at the University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, May 2004.

“Foreign Exchange Markets,” co-sponsored with the Frank J. Petrilli Center for Research in International Finance and the the TransAtlantic Finance Institute, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2005.*

“Emerging Market Finance,” co-sponsored with the Frank J. Petrilli Center for Research in International Finance, and the Emerging Market Group of the Cass Business School, and held at the Cass Business School, City University of London, May 2005.

“Financial Globalization and Integration,” co-sponsored with the European Central Bank (ECB) and held at the ECB, Frankfurt, Germany, July 2006.

‘‘Financial and Commercial Integrations,’’ co-sponsored with the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics, and held at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, September 2006,

“Euro Area Expansion: Current State and Future Prospects,” co-sponsored with the Economics Department of the University of Crete, and held at the University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, May 2007.

“Emerging Market Finance,” co-sponsored with Frank J. Petrilli Center for Research in International Finance and the Emerging Market Group of the Cass Business School and held at the Cass Business School, City University of London, May 2008.

“Money and Monetary Policy” co-sponsored with the Frank J. Petrilli Center for Research in International Finance and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and held at Fordham University, October 2008.

* The TransAtlantic Finance Institute is a research institute domiciled inthe Fordham Business Schools and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.