3rd Biennial Bank of Italy and Bocconi University conference on “Financial stability and Regulation”

Posted on September 16, 2021October 1, 2021 by Madalina Patru

CfP Deadline Date: October 29, 2021 Conference Event: March 17-18, 2022 Event Location: Rome, Italy Keynote speaker(s): Stefano Giglio (Yale School of Management) Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School) Organizer(s): Bank of Italy Bocconi University – BAFFI CAREFIN We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions on topics including (but not limited to): macro-finance models of linkages between[…]

August 2021: VoxEU Column – IMF loans and offshore financial flows

Posted on September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 by Madalina Patru

By Shekhar Aiyar and Manasa Patnam Recent research suggests that World Bank aid disbursements are associated with outflows from recipient countries to offshore financial centres, indicating elite capture of aid. This column uses 25 years of data to examine whether the same is true for IMF lending. It finds no evidence that IMF loans are[…]

August 2021: Speech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB – The rise of non-bank finance and its implications for monetary policy transmission

Posted on September 13, 2021September 13, 2021 by Madalina Patru

by Isabel Schnabel Speech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA). Link: The rise of non-bank finance and its implications for monetary policy transmission

9th SUERF/UniCredit Foundation Research Prize

Posted on September 13, 2021September 13, 2021 by Madalina Patru

CfP Deadline Date: October 31, 2021 Organizer(s): SUERF and UniCredit Foundation This call for papers invites original research – theoretical or empirical, academic or policy-oriented – which studies the interaction of COVID, government measures aiming to mitigate firm and household bankruptcies, and the development of non-performing loans; how banks have so far dealt with them;[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper – Financial Stability Policies and Bank Lending: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Federal Reserve Interventions in 1920-1921

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Madalina Patru

Authors: Kilian Rieder Date: August 2021 Abstract: I exploit a single natural experiment to estimate the comparative causal effects of different financial stability policies on bank-level credit. In 1920, four Federal Reserve Banks hiked their interest rate indiscriminately to safeguard financial stability. Another four Reserve Banks employed targeted rate action aimed at over-leveraged banks instead.[…]

IMF Working Paper: IMF Programs and Financial Flows to Offshore Centers

Posted on September 13, 2021September 16, 2021 by Madalina Patru

Author(s): Shekhar Aiyar and Manasa Patnam Date: May 2021 Abstract: This paper examines whether IMF lending is associated with increases in outflows to offshore financial centers (OFCs), known for bank secrecy and asset protection, relative to other international destinations. Using quarterly data from the BIS on bilateral bank deposits, we are unable to detect any[…]

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

Posted on September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 by Madalina Patru

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[…]

5th Shanghai-Edinburgh-London Fintech Conference

Posted on September 9, 2021October 1, 2021 by Madalina Patru

CfP Deadline Date: September 25, 2021 Conference Event: October 30, 2021 Event Location: Shanghai, China and online Keynote speaker(s): Murillo Campello (Cornell University and Journal of Financial Intermediation) Organizer(s): Shanghai Institute of International Finance Centre, University of Edinburgh Business School and Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London CONFERENCE: Following the success of three[…]

OCC Symposium on Systemic Risk and Stress Testing in Banking

Posted on September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 by Madalina Patru

CfP Deadline Date: December 17, 2021 Conference Event: March 21 – 22, 2022 Event Location: Washington, D.C., USA Organizer(s): The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will host a research symposium on Systemic Risk and Stress Testing in Banking on March 21-22, 2022. The symposium is[…]