Day: October 6, 2021

9th HEC-McGill Winter Finance Workshop – Special Edition with Goethe University

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CfP Deadline Date: October 30, 2021 Conference Event: March 27-29, 2022 Event Location: Ischgl, Tyrol, Austria Organizer(s): Patrick Augustin (McGill University) Jan Ericsson (McGill University) Mathieu Fournier (HEC Montréal) Alexandre Jeanneret (University of New South Wales) Tobias Tröger (Goethe University, LawFin) Michael Weber (University of Chicago) The Finance departments of HEC Montréal, the Desmarais Global[…]

9th HEC-McGill Winter Finance Workshop – Special Edition with Goethe University

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CfP Deadline Date: October 30, 2021 Conference Event: March 27-29, 2022 Event Location: Ischgl, Tyrol, Austria Organizer(s): Patrick Augustin (McGill University) Jan Ericsson (McGill University) Mathieu Fournier (HEC Montréal) Alexandre Jeanneret (University of New South Wales) Tobias Tröger (Goethe University, LawFin) Michael Weber (University of Chicago) The Finance departments of HEC Montréal, the Desmarais Global[…]

BoE Working Paper: Dash for dollars

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Author(s): Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi and Fernando Eguren-Martin Date: July 2021 Abstract: Within-firm variation of corporate bond spreads around the Covid-19 outbreak shows that US dollar‑denominated bonds experienced larger increases in spreads relative to non-dollar bonds, especially at short maturities. Differently, in the non-dollar sample it was the spreads of longer maturity bonds that widened more markedly.[…]

2022 Research Conference On Bank Regulation: “Key Risks and Challenges for Regulation: Climate and Digitalization”

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CfP Deadline Date: November 1, 2021 Conference Event: February 11, 2022 Event Location: New York, NY, USA Organizer(s): Columbia University and Bank Policy Institute The Bank Policy Institute and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs invite the submission of papers for our annual conference on Bank Regulation and Supervision. At this stage, we[…]

2022 Research Conference On Bank Regulation: “Key Risks and Challenges for Regulation: Climate and Digitalization”

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CfP Deadline Date: November 1, 2021 Conference Event: February 11, 2022 Event Location: New York, NY, USA Organizer(s): Columbia University and Bank Policy Institute The Bank Policy Institute and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs invite the submission of papers for our annual conference on Bank Regulation and Supervision. At this stage, we[…]

September 2021: BIS Quarterly Review – Seven decades of international banking

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By Patrick McGuire and Philip Wooldridge International banking grew rapidly from the 1950s to the 2000s, propelled by banks avoiding regulations that burdened their domestic funding, by financial liberalisation that expanded investment opportunities, and by financial innovation that offered new tools to manage risks. The core of the market is offshore, where lenders and borrowers[…]

September 2021: BIS Quarterly Review – Funding for fintechs: patterns and drivers

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By  Giulio Cornelli, Sebastian Doerr, Lavinia Franco and Jon Frost This special feature examines trends in equity funding for financial technology firms (fintechs) and the underlying country-specific drivers. Fintechs have raised over $1 trillion in equity globally since 2010. While the investment landscape was initially quite concentrated, it has become more diverse, both geographically and[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper: The Global Financial Cycle

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Author(s): Silvia Miranda-Agrippino, Hélène Rey Date: September 2021 Abstract: We review the literature on the empirical characteristics of the global financial cycle and associated stylized facts on international capital flows, asset prices, risk aversion and liquidity in the financial system. We analyse the co-movements of global factors in asset prices and capital flows with commodity[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper: Learning in Bank Runs

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Author(s): Eva Schliephake, Joel Shapiro Date: September 2021 Abstract: We examine a model in which depositor learning exacerbates bank runs. Informed depositors can quickly withdraw when the bank has low-quality assets. Uninformed depositors may decide to wait, which allows them to learn by observing informed depositors’ actions. However, learning that the bank has low-quality assets[…]

HEC-CEPR Macro-Finance Conference: Banking, Finance, Macroeconomics and the Real Economy

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CfP Deadline Date: October 22, 2021 Conference Event: December 13-14, 2021 Event Location: Paris, France Keynote speaker(s): Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University and CEPR) Jaume Ventura (CREI, UPF, Barcelona GSE and CEPR) Organizer(s): Gaetano Gaballo, Eric Mengus, Jean-Edouard Colliard, Evren Ors, Tomasz Michalski and Irina Zviadadze This conference aims to bring together experts to present and[…]