2019 FMA European Conference

CfP Deadline Date: December 3, 2018 Conference Event: June 12 – 14, 2019 Event Location: Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland Keynote Speaker(s): / Organizer(s): Financial Management Association International (FMA) FMA International is pleased to announce its 23rd European Conference at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. FMA’s European Conference brings[…]

WEAI 94th Annual Conference

CfP Deadline Date: December 15, 2018 Conference Event: June 28-July 2, 2019 Event Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA Keynote Speaker(s): Presidential Address: Daniel McFadden (University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley); Keynote Address: Raj Chetty (Harvard University) Organizer(s): WEAI Present a Paper | Deadline December 15, 2018 — Online[…]

BIS Working Paper: What drives local lending by global banks?

Authors: Stefan Avdjiev, Uluc Aysun and Ralf Hepp Date: September 2018 Abstract: We find that the lending behaviour of global banks’ subsidiaries throughout the world is more closely related to local macroeconomic conditions and their financial conditions than to those of their owner-specific counterparts. This inference is drawn from a panel dataset populated with bank-level[…]

European Winter Finance Conference (EWFC) 2019

CfP Deadline Date: October 8, 2018 Conference Event: January 13-16, 2019 Event Location: Megeve, France Keynote Speaker(s):  tba Organizer(s): Organizing committee The 2019 EWFC will be held in Megève, France from Sunday 13th – Wednesday 16th January, 2019. The EWFC is an annual conference that was started in 2006. It is a small, informal conference that[…]

Sixth Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation

CfP Deadline Date: November 8, 2018 Conference Event: May 9-10, 2019 Event Location: Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington DC Keynote Speaker(s):  / Organizer(s): US SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA), Lehigh University’s Center for Financial Services Studies, the University of Maryland’s Center for Financial Policy and CFA Institute The SEC’s Division of Economic[…]

2018 Autumn Workshop of the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST)

CfP Deadline Date: September 30, 2018 Conference Event: November 30, 2018 Event Location: Udine, Italy Keynote Speaker(s):  / Organizer(s): Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST) The 2018 Autumn Workshop of the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST) will be held at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Udine, Italy[…]

6th International Conference on Sovereign Bond Markets: Quantitative Easing and Financial (In)Stability

CfP Deadline Date: December 1, 2018 Conference Event: April 1-3, 2019 Event Location: Frankfurt (Main), Germany Keynote Speaker(s): tba Organizer(s): GRETA Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the 6th International Conference on Sovereign Bond Markets. The conference this year focuses on Quantitative Easing and Financial (In)Stability and is[…]

NBER Working Paper: International Spillovers and ‘Ex-ante’ Efficient Bailouts

Authors: Marina Azzimonti, and Vincenzo Quadrini Date: September 2018 Abstract: We study how cross-country macroeconomic spillovers caused by sovereign default affect equilibrium bailouts. Because of portfolio diversification, the default of one country causes a macroeconomic contraction also in other countries. This generates a self-interest for these other countries to bailout the defaulting country. A novel[…]

NBER Working Paper: The Costs of Macroprudential Policy

Authors: Björn Richter, Moritz Schularick, and Ilhyock Shim Date: September 2018 Abstract: Central banks increasingly rely on macroprudential measures to manage the financial cycle. However, the effects of such policies on the core objectives of monetary policy to stabilise output and inflation are largely unknown. In this paper, we quantify the effects of changes in[…]

September 2018: New VoxEU Column – The increasing faith in macroprudential policies

Eugenio Cerutti, Stijn Claessens, and Luc Laeven, 18 September 2018 The Global Crisis was a catalyst for the adoption of macroprudential policies around the world. Using newly updated data, this column examines the adoption of macroprudential policy instruments from 2000 to 2017. Since 2015, advanced economies have on average been using more instruments than emerging[…]