CfP Deadline: April 29, 2024 Conference Event: September 4-6, 2024 Event Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Organizer(s): Money, Macro and Finance Society (MMF) Keynote Speaker(s): Florin Bilbiie (University of Cambridge)Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics)Barbara Rossi (University of Pompeu Fabra)Ayşegül Şahin (University Texas, Austin) Description: The Money Macro and Finance Society is delighted to invite you[…]
IMF Blog entry by Allison Holland, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu How to Ease Rising External Debt-Service Pressures in Low-Income Countries – Debt servicing costs are increasing rapidly while annual refinancing needs have tripled to about $60 billion. Links: IMF Blog: How to Ease Rising External Debt-Service Pressures in Low-Income Countries
FSI Insights on policy implementation – No 56by Johannes Ehrentraud, Ségolène Mure, Elisabeth Noble and Raihan Zamil Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs) encompass numerous firms with distinct business models that provide various financial services. This includes NBFI retail lenders, such as finance companies, mortgage companies, fintechs and big techs that lend to households and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this[…]
Author(s):Tommaso Gasparini, Vivien Lewis, Stéphane Moyen, Stefania Villa Date:March 2024 Abstract: Increases in firm default risk raise the default probability of banks while decreasing output and inflation in US data. To rationalize the empirical evidence, we analyse firm risk shocks in a New Keynesian model where entrepreneurs and banks engage in a loan contract and[…]
Author(s):Ezra Oberfield, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Nicholas Trachter & Derek T. Wenning Date:March 2024 Abstract: We study the spatial expansion of banks in response to banking deregulation in the 1980s and 90s. During this period, large banks expanded rapidly, mostly by adding new branches in new locations, while many small banks exited. We document that large banks[…]
CfP Deadline: April 15, 2024 Conference Event: July 29-30, 2024 Event Location: Luxembourg Organizer(s): University of LuxembourgESSEC Business SchoolCentre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Keynote Speaker(s): Adriano Rampini (Duke University) Description: The University of Luxembourg, together with ESSEC Business School and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), is organising a conference on “Sustainable Financial[…]
Author(s):Victoria Ivashina, Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Luc Laeven, Karsten Müller Date:March 2024 Abstract: Using a new dataset on sectoral credit exposures covering financial and non-financial sectors in 115 economies over the period 1940–2014, we document the following evidence that corporate debt plays a key role in explaining boom-bust cycles, financial crises, and slow macroeconomic recoveries: (i) corporate[…]
CfP Deadline: April 15, 2024 Conference Event: July 31- August 1, 2024 Event Location: Luxembourg Organizer(s): University of Luxembourg Keynote Speaker(s): Josef Zechner (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Description: Submission: Submission Deadline: 15 April 2024 Interested authors should submit their papers as a pdf-file by filling in the following online form. There is no[…]
Author(s):Charles W. Calomiris, Matthew S. Jaremski Date:March 2024 Abstract: The high social costs of financial crises imply that economists, policymakers, businesses, and households have a tremendous incentive to understand, and try to prevent them. And yet, so far we have failed to learn how to avoid them. In this article, we take a novel approach[…]
CfP Deadline: May 17, 2024 Conference Event: October 4, 2024 Event Location: London, United Kingdom Organizer(s): Bank of EnglandBanque de FranceBanca d’ItaliaIMFOECD Keynote Speaker(s): Helene Rey (London Business School) Description: Submission: Interested authors should submit their paper by 17 May 2024 to CapitalFlowsConference@bankofengland.co.uk. Papers sent after the deadline will not be considered. Authors whose papers[…]