Non-bank Financial Sector and Financial Stability

Conference Event: October 4, 2019 Event Location: London School of Economics, London, Great Britain Keynote speaker(s): Ralph Koijen (University of Chicago Booth School of Business and CEPR) Organizer(s): London School of Economics Non-bank financial intermediation comprises almost half of the global financial sector. Since the crisis, UK private non-financial corporations have also substituted funding from[…]

10th RCEA Macro-Money-Finance Conference

Conference Event: September 13-14, 2019 Event Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Keynote speaker(s): • Emmanuel Farhi (Harvard University, NBER and CEPR) • Enrique Mendoza (University of Pennsylvania and NBER) Organizer(s): RCEA (Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) The current macroeconomic situation indicates a growing possibility of the next recession. Economic growth has slowed down in Europe and[…]

CEPR Working Paper: Macroprudential Policy with Leakages

Author(s): Julien Bengui, Javier Bianchi Date: August 2019 Abstract: The outreach of macroprudential policies is likely limited in practice by imperfect regulation enforcement, whether due to shadow banking, regulatory arbitrage, or other regulation circumvention schemes. We study how such concerns affect the design of optimal regulatory policy in a workhorse model in which pecuniary externalities[…]

2019 FinTech Conference

CfP Deadline Date: September 20, 2019 Conference Event: December 2, 2019 Event Location: the NHH Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway Organizer(s): The NHH Norwegian School of Economics, the Argentum Center for Private Equity FinTech has rapidly assumed center stage in the financial industry. The impact of informational technology is expected to radically restructure[…]