Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Financial Markets Research (SGF Conference)

CfP Deadline Date: October 31, 2020 Conference Event: March 26, 2021 Event Location: Zurich, Switzerland Organizer(s): Swiss Society for Financial Markets Research The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research (SGF Conference 2021) will be held in Zürich on March 26, 2021. Should mobility restrictions prevent an on-site meeting, we will alternatively[…]

ECB-RFS Macro-Finance Conference

CfP Deadline Date:November 15, 2020 Conference Event:March 22-23, 2021 Event Location:Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt Keynote speaker(s):Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University) Organizer(s):European Central Bank (ECB) and the Review of Financial Studies (RFS) This conference aims to bring together experts to present and discuss new research on macro-finance topics of particular interest to central banks, including research related[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper: Close Competitors? On the Causes and Consequences of Bilateral Bank Competition

Author(s): Ralph De Haas, Liping Lu and Steven Ongena Date: July 2020 Abstract: We interview 379 European bank CEOs to identify their banks’ main competitors. We then provideevidence on the drivers of bilateral bank competition, construct a novel competition measure at thelocality level, and assess how well it explains variation in firms’ credit constraints. We[…]