CfP Deadline Date: March 11, 2022 Conference Event: June 6-7, 2022 Event Location: Washington, DC, USA Organizer(s): The OCC Economics Department The OCC Economics Department will host a Symposium on Climate Risk in Banking and Finance on June 6-7 2022. The symposium will provide a platform for interested academic and regulatory participants and experts in[…]
CfP Deadline Date: March 15, 2022 Conference Event: May 27-28, 2022 Event Location: Hong Kong, China Keynote speaker(s): Stefan Nagel (University of Chicago) Kay Giesecke (Stanford University) Will Cong (Cornell University) Organizer(s): City University of Hong Kong Financial technology, or FinTech, is driving innovation in financial services globally. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain,[…]
Banks’ cross-border claims increased by $228 billion in the third quarter of 2021, pushing their year-on-year (yoy) growth rate to 3%. Claims on non-bank financial institutions accounted for more than half of the quarterly increase. Non-US banks increased their US dollar funding to their affiliates in the United States and, in turn, expanded their claims[…]
CfP Deadline Date: March 15, 2022 Conference Event: July 18, 2022 Event Location: Cambridge, UK Keynote speaker(s): Manju Puri (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University) Organizer(s): University of Cambridge The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance with the support of Invesco is hosting the 7th annual conference on alternative finance on 18 July 2022 at University[…]
Author(s): Iñaki Aldasoro, Sebastian Doerr, and Haonan Zhou Date: January 2022 Abstract: This paper provides first cross-country evidence on non-bank lending during crises. We show that non-banks contract their syndicated lending by over 50% more than banks during financial shocks in borrower countries. Establishing that non-banks serve riskier borrowers globally, we find that differences in[…]
by Georgios Georgiadis, Gernot Müller, Ben Schumann In times of heightened global risk, investors flock to the dollar as their capacity or willingness to bear risk declines. As a result, the dollar appreciates. This column examines the effects of global risk shocks and the dollar’s role in the international adjustment to such shocks, finding that[…]
CfP Deadline Date: August 15, 2022 Conference Event: November 9-10, 2022 Event Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA Organizer(s): Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the Journal of International Economics The Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Journal of International Economics invite submissions for a research conference on “Sovereign Debt”. The conference[…]
Blog entry by Thorsten Beck, January 26, 2022 Complexity of banks poses governance and regulatory challenges – the more complex, the harder to govern and monitor and the harder to supervise and resolve in case of failure. And especially global banks are mind-bogglingly complex, as first documented by Nicola Cetorelli and Linda Goldberg. But what[…]
By Stephen Millard, Margarita Rubio and Alexandra Varadi We use a DSGE model with financial frictions, leverage limits on banks, loan to value (LTV) limits and debt‑service ratio (DSR) limits on mortgage borrowing to examine: i) the effects of different macroprudential policies on key macro aggregates; ii) their interaction with each other and with monetary[…]