February 2022: New VoxEU Column – Macro-financial policies in an international financial centre

 By Thorsten Beck, interviewed by Tim Phillips Since the GFC the UK has used innovative macroprudential and monetary policy tools to maintain stability. But the UK is an international financial centre, and so does this policy framework create spillovers in other places, and do influences from elsewhere affect stability in the UK? Yes and yes,[…]

4th Edition of Ethical Finance and Sustainability Conference (EFS-2022)

CfP Deadline Date: April 20, 2022 Conference Event: May 12-13, 2022 Event Location: Paris, France Keynote speaker(s): Pr. Perry Sadorsky (Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto, Canada) Pr. Ugur Soytas (Technical University of Denmark) Organizer(s): EDC Paris Business School, and CY Paris Cergy University The achievement of the seventh sustainable development goal SDG#7 (i.e., affordable,[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper: Supranational cooperation and regulatory arbitrage

Author(s): Thorsten Beck, Consuelo Silva-Buston, Wolf Wagner Date: January 2022 Abstract: Using data on 113 banking groups, spanning 116 host and 40 home countries, we find that cross-border banks increase lending in a foreign subsidiary when the degree to which their other (foreign) subsidiaries are covered by supervisory cooperation agreements increases. This increase is funded[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper: News, Sentiment and Capital Flows

Author(s): Kenza Benhima, Rachel Cordonier Date: February 2022 Abstract: We examine empirically the effect of two types of shocks related to expectations – “news” (increases in expected future productivity) and “sentiment” (surges in optimism unrelated to future productivity) – on gross capital flows. These two shocks together explain more than 80% of the variation in[…]

2022 UCLA Anderson Fink Center Conference on Financial Markets

CfP Deadline Date: February 25, 2022 Conference Event: April 28-29, 2022 Event Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Keynote speaker(s): Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University) Organizer(s): UCLA Anderson School of Management The UCLA Fink Center for Finance and the Finance area at the UCLA Anderson School of Management are delighted to host the third annual Conference on[…]

Community Banking in the 21st Century Research and Policy Conference 2022

CfP Deadline Date: June 3, 2022 Conference Event: September 28-29, 2022 Event Location: St. Louis, MO, USA and online Organizer(s): Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The call for papers for the 2022 Community Banking in the 21st Century research and policy conference is now open through June 3. This year marks the 10th anniversary[…]

Twelfth International Research Forum on Monetary Policy (IRFMP) – Monetary policy during and after the pandemic

CfP Deadline Date: March 13, 2022 Conference Event: May 12-13, 2022 Event Location: online Organizer(s): International Research Forum on Monetary Policy (IRFMP) The twelfth conference organised by the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy (IRFMP) will be hosted by the European Central Bank (ECB) and will be held virtually on 12-13 May 2022. The purpose[…]

FDIC 21st Annual Bank Research Conference

CfP Deadline Date:April 18, 2022 Conference Event:September 14-16, 2022 Event Location:online Organizer(s):Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) The FDIC’s Center for Financial Research invites submissions for the 21st Annual Bank Research Conference to be held on September 14 to 16, 2022. September 14 will be held virtually. Conditions permitting, events on September 15 and 16 will[…]

Fourth Biennial Conference on New Dimensions of Monetary Policy

CfP Deadline Date: May 3, 2022 Conference Event: September 22-23, 2022 Event Location: Warsaw, Poland Keynote speaker(s): Alberto Cavallo (Harvard Business School) Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics and Political Science) Organizer(s): Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP), the Bank of Lithuania, and the Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA) Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP) in cooperation with the[…]