Month: March 2019

Financial Intermediation in a Globalized World – a Deutsche Bundesbank – IWH – ECONtribute – CEPR conference

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CfP Deadline Date: May 31, 2019 Conference Event: October 24-25 , 2019 Event Location: Deutsche Bundesbank (City Office), Taunusanlage 5, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Keynote Speaker(s): Allen N. Berger (University of South Carolina) and Linda S. Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER) Dinner speech by Joachim Wuermeling (Deutsche Bundesbank). Organizer(s): Deutsche Bundesbank,[…]

Joint BIS/CGFS Workshop–Research on global financial stability: the use of BIS international banking and financial statistics

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CfP Deadline Date: July 31, 2019 Conference Event: December 12, 2019 Event Location: Basel, Switzerland Keynote Speaker(s): tba Organizer(s): Bank for International Settlements, Bank of England, Central Bank of Ireland, Federal Reserve Bank of New York On 12 December 2019 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS)1[…]

Joint BIS/CGFS Workshop–Research on global financial stability: the use of BIS international banking and financial statistics

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CfP Deadline Date: July 31, 2019 Conference Event: December 12, 2019 Event Location: Basel, Switzerland Keynote Speaker(s): tba Organizer(s): Bank for International Settlements, Bank of England, Central Bank of Ireland, Federal Reserve Bank of New York On 12 December 2019 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS)1[…]

BIS Working Paper: FX intervention and domestic credit: Evidence from high-frequency micro data

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Authors: Boris Hofmann, Hyun Song Shin and Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas Date: March 2019 Abstract: We employ a rarely available high-frequency micro data set to study the impact of foreign exchange intervention on domestic credit growth. We find that sterilised purchases of dollars by the central bank dampens the flow of new domestic corporate loans in Colombia.[…]

IMF Working Paper – Digging Deeper–Evidence on the Effects of Macroprudential Policies from a New Database

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Authors: Zohair Alam, Adrian Alter, Jesse Eiseman, Gaston Gelos, Heedon Kang, Machiko Narita, Erlend Nier, and Naixi Wang Date: March 2019 Abstract: This paper introduces a new comprehensive database of macroprudential policies, which combines information from various sources and covers 134 countries from January 1990 to December 2016. Using these data, we first confirm that[…]

2019 Spring Workshop of the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST)

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CfP Deadline Date: April 05, 2019 Conference Event: June 5, 2019 Event Location: LAPE, Université de Limoges, France Keynote Speaker(s): / Organizer(s): Université de Limoges, Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST) The 2019 Spring Workshop of the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST) will be held at the LAPE, Université de Limoges, on[…]

2019 Spring Workshop of the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST)

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CfP Deadline Date: April 05, 2019 Conference Event: June 5, 2019 Event Location: LAPE, Université de Limoges, France Keynote Speaker(s): / Organizer(s): Université de Limoges, Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST) The 2019 Spring Workshop of the Financial Intermediation Network of European Studies (FINEST) will be held at the LAPE, Université de Limoges, on[…]

March 2019: BIS launched FRAME online repository of studies on effects of financial regulations

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Frederic Boissay, Carlos Cantú, Stijn Claessens and Alan Villegas, March 5, 2019 The BIS is launching a public, online and interactive repository of studies on the effects of financial regulations, called FRAME. The purpose of this repository is to keep track of, organise, standardise and disseminate the latest findings. FRAME currently covers 83 studies and[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper: Host-Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity

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Authors: Kamran Bilir, Davin Chor, Kalina Manova Date: February 2019 Abstract: This paper evaluates the influence of host-country financial conditions on the global operations of multinational firms. Using detailed U.S. data, we establish that financial development in a country is associated with relatively more entry by multinational affiliates, as well as with higher aggregate affiliate[…]