CGD Working Paper – Regulatory Arbitrage and Loan Location Decisions by Multinational Banks

Author(s):Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint L. Horvath, Harry Huizinga Date:April 2023 Abstract: This paper examines the impact of international differences in capital regulation on multinationalbanks’ loan origination location decisions. International loan location decisions represent a keybanking margin that has previously not been examined in the literature on regulatory arbitrage bybanks. Our estimation relies on within-loan contribution variation[…]

Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute: Fall 2023 Institute Research Conference

CfP Deadline Date:May 12, 2023 Conference Event:October 5-6, 2023 Event Location:Minneapolis, United States Organizer(s):Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Description: The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute is pleased to announce a call for papers for its third annual Research Conference. This event will showcase the range of frontier-style research that the[…]

Johns Hopkins Carey Finance Conference

CfP Deadline Date:June 4, 2023 Conference Event:October 27, 2023 Event Location:Baltimore, United States Organizer(s):Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Description: Accepted paper topics: > Asset pricing models using natural language, AI, and ML.> Climate finance and risks. Green, impact, investing and disclosure.> Financial intermediation. Disruptions such as FinTech, RoboAdvising.> International finance. Safe assets, the dollar factor,[…]

12th Policy Research Workshop

CfP Deadline Date:July 7, 2023 Conference Event:November 7-8, 2023 Event Location:Paris, France Organizer(s):European Banking Authority Description: Submission: Interested parties can download the detailed call for papers, which includes additional information on the proposed topics for the papers, composition of the programme committee and contact details for the submission of papers. The submission deadline is 7[…]

April 2023: Back to normal? Balance sheet size and interest rate control

By Isabel Schnabel The ECB’s unconventional monetary policy measures have significantly expanded its balance sheet over the past eight years, including a significant growth of excess reserves on the liabilities side. In recent years, these excess reserves have been instrumental in steering short-term interest rates. Having started quantitative tightening (QT) on 1 March 2023, which[…]

3rd CEPR ConferencePolitics, Corporations and the Common Good

CfP Deadline Date:June 11, 2023 Conference Event:October 20, 2023 Event Location:Rotterdam, Netherlands Organizer(s): PolEconFinCentre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Keynote speaker(s):Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) Description: Submission: The submission deadline is Sunday 11 June 2023 (6PM BST). There is no submission fee. The authors will be notified about the acceptance of papers in[…]

Kiel Working Papers – China as an International Lender of Last Resort

Author(s):Sebastian Horn, Christoph Trebesch Date:March 2023 Abstract: This paper shows that China has launched a new global system for cross-border rescue lending to countries in debt distress. We build the first comprehensive dataset on China’s overseas bailouts between 2000 and 2021 and provide new insights into China’s growing role in the global financial system. A[…]

18th Central Bank Conference on the Microstructure of Financial Markets

CfP Deadline Date:May 1, 2023 Conference Event:October 19-20, 2023 Event Location:Washington, D.C., United States Organizer(s):Alain Chaboud (Federal Reserve Board FRB)Dagfinn Rime (BI Norwegian Business School)Clara Vega (FRB)Filip Zikes (FRB) Keynote speaker(s):Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University) Description: The conference will bring together researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners to discuss recent research and current policy issues related to the[…]