The AXA Chair’s Research fields are:

• Flow of Funds: Identifying mega trends
• Bank Risk and Regulatory Architecture
• Inclusive Finance and Growth

The scientific aims of the research programme will provide a step enhancement on Murinde’s earlier work in at least three main dimensions:

• Introduce dynamics and uncertainty to a static flow-of-funds framework, to investigate mega trends in global finance and risk, given evolving competitiveness, institutional change and technological innovations
• Build large datasets and apply new developments in econometrics to research bank behaviour in the evolving global financial regulation
• Track megatrends and model their impact on global financial systems

The potential outputs, for academia and society, will include:

• Articles published in top-rated journals
• Large datasets, real time indicators, forecasts and simulations, and policy/practitioner briefs, on emerging mega trends
• Evidence for new financial products and instruments (e.g., from RCT).
• Annual conference and flagship report, Mega Trends in Global Finance and Risk. How will the Chair’s research programme make a step change in existing research