7th Annual ICGS Conference “Corporate Governance in Times of Disruption”

CfP Deadline Date:April 1, 2021 Conference Event:October 9-10, 2021 Event Location:Groningen, the Netherlands or online Organizer(s):International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) The 7th annual conference of the Inter- national Corporate Governance Society will take place from Friday to Sunday 8-10 October 2021 at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). The conference is intended to provide a[…]

Community Banking in the 21st Century Research and Policy Conference

CfP Deadline Date: June 4, 2021 Conference Event: September 28-29, 2021 Event Location: St. Louis, MO, USA or online Organizer(s): Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis This is the ninth year for the conference, which is sponsored by the Federal Reserve, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC).[…]

37th International Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance

CfP Deadline Date: February 15, 2021 Conference Event: June 17-18, 2021 Event Location: Paris, France or online Keynote Speakers: Robert Townsend (MIT) Stefania Albanesi (University of Pittsburgh) Organizer(s): Banque de France, GDRE Money Banking and Finance and LEDa, Dauphine Economics Department The 37th International Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance is the annual meeting of[…]

GSIB Status and Corporate Lending: An International Analysis

Author(s):Hans Degryse, Mike Mariathasan and Thi Hien Tang Date:January 2021 Abstract: Global Systemically Important Banks (GSIBs) benefit from implicit government guarantees but face additional capital requirements and oversight. This paper examines the effectiveness of the Financial Stability Board’s recently introduced GSIB-framework and its short-run implications for the real economy, by exploiting the leak of a[…]

January 2021: New VoxEU Column: The effects of ‘global systemically important bank’ designation on corporate lending

By Hans Degryse, Mike Mariathasan and Thi Hien Tang Frequent bailouts during the Global Crisis showed that governments cannot credibly commit not to support large financial institutions. This inability leads to moral hazard and motivated the Financial Stability Board’s framework for ‘global systemically important banks’. This column explores the net effects of this framework on[…]

January 2021: New ECB Research Bulletin article: How much capital should banks hold?

By Caterina Mendicino, Kalin Nikolov, Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Javier Suarez and Dominik Super Episodes such as the current coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis might lead to a significant rise in borrower defaults and, consequently, weakness in the banking sector. Having well-capitalised banks makes the financial system more resilient to such episodes. We assess how much capital would be[…]

Workshop for Women in Macroeconomics, Finance and Economic History (WIMFEH)

CfP Deadline Date:February 28, 2021 Conference Event:May 3-4, 2021 Event Location:Berlin, Germany or online Keynote speaker(s): Yoosoon Chang (Indiana University Bloomington) Caroline Fohlin (Emory College of Arts and Sciences) Marie Hoerova (European Central Bank – ECB) Organizer(s):German Institute for Economic Research The 2nd annual Workshop for Women in Macroeconomics, Finance and Economic History is being[…]

CPMI conference on “Pushing the frontiers of payments: towards a global payments area”

CfP Deadline Date: January 27, 2021 Conference Event: March 18-19, 2021 Event Location: Online Organizer(s): Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures Conference (CPMI) of the BIS Over the past few decades, domestic payment systems have undergone a radical transformation. New payment methods and interfaces have taken shape, and many more innovations are under way. The Covid-19[…]

Corporate Finance Theory Symposium 2021

CfP Deadline Date: February 15, 2021 Conference Event: September 10-11, 2021 Event Location: TBC Keynote speaker(s): Josef Zechner (WU Vienna) Organizer(s): Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) For the eights year, CERF organise a Corporate Finance Theory Symposium.The symposium consists of high quality papers in the broad area of corporate finance theory. The Cambridge[…]

2nd Finance and Productivity (FINPRO) Conference “Finance and Productivity During and After the Lock-Down”

CfP Deadline Date: January 14, 2022 Conference Event: May 5-6, 2022 Event Location: Halle (Saale), Germany Keynote speaker(s): Thomas Philippon (Stern School of Business, New York University) Organizer(s): Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Finance department at the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (IWH) The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic sparked[…]