7th annual meeting of CEBRA’s IFM program: The Role of Central Banks and International Financial Institutions in the Transition Towards a Low-Carbon Economy

CfP Deadline: May 31, 2024 Conference Event: November 21-22, 2024 Event Location: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Organizer(s): Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA)European Stability Mechanism (ESM)University of LuxembourgBanque centrale du Luxembourg Keynote Speaker(s): Claudia Buch (Chair of Supervisory Board, ECB) Description: The seventh annual meeting of CEBRA’s International Finance and Macroeconomics program (IFM) is joint with the[…]

2024 University of Oklahoma Climate and Energy Finance Research Conference

CfP Deadline: May 31, 2024 Conference Event: November 14-16, 2024 Event Location: Oklahoma City, United States Organizer(s): University of Oklahoma Price College of Business Center for Financial Studies Keynote Speaker(s): Oliver Hart (Harvard University) Description: The University of Oklahoma Price College of Business Center for Financial Studies is organizing the Fifth OU-RFS Climate and Energy[…]

3rd CEMLA – Dallas Fed – IBEFA Financial Stability Workshop: Frontier Research in Financial Intermediation

CfP Deadline: May 27, 2024 Conference Event: November 25-26, 2024 Event Location: Mexico City, Mexico Organizer(s): Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA)Federal Reserve Bank of DallasInternational Banking, Economics and Finance Association (IBEFA) Keynote Speaker(s): Viral V. Acharya (New York University Stern School of Business) Description: Submission: Please submit papers to: fsworkshop@cemla.org using the subject[…]

6th Conference on Behavioral Research in Finance, Governance and Accounting

CfP Deadline: June 30, 2024 Conference Event: November 29, 2024 Event Location: online Organizer(s): Justus Liebig University Giessen in conjunction with the GGS Keynote Speaker(s): Michael Weber (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business) Description: Submission: Authors interested in presenting a paper at the conference can submit their paper online at the BFGA Website. Submission[…]

Santiago Finance Workshop

CfP Deadline: July 12, 2024 Conference Event: December 9-10, 2024 Event Location: Santiago, Chile Organizer(s): University of Chile Keynote Speaker(s): Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School) Description: The School of Business and Economics of the University of Chile (with the support of the Central Bank of Chile) is proud to organize the 2024 edition of the[…]

2024 Federal Reserve Stress Testing Research Conference

CfP Deadline: June 14, 2024 Conference Event: October 10-11, 2024 Event Location: Boston, United States (Hybrid Event) Organizer(s): Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Description: Submission: We invite authors to submit papers or extended abstracts to StressTestingConference@frb.gov byFriday, June 14, 2024. Complete papers are strongly encouraged. Extended abstracts should include adescription of the motivation for the[…]

April 2024: 1st IWH Bootcamp in Financial Economics (BOFE) for Master Students – Call for Applications

Why apply? The current polycrisis is a catalyst for far-reaching structural change that lies ahead of European society. Rebuilding more resilient and sustainable social systems will require the mobilisation and (re)allocation of vast financial resources between governments, firms, and households. Whereas the financial system plays a pivotal role in this intermediation process, it is also[…]

Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper – Book Value Risk Management of Banks: Limited Hedging, HTM Accounting, and Rising Interest Rates

Author(s):Joao Granja, Erica Xuewei Jiang, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru Date:April 2024 Abstract: In the face of rising interest rates in 2022, banks mitigated interest rate exposure of the accounting value of their assets but left the vast majority of their long-duration assets exposed to interest rate risk. Data from call reports and SEC[…]

April 2024: EU banks are robust, but signs of credit quality deterioration are becoming apparent, the EBA’s Risk Dashboard shows

EBA Press Release The European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Q4 2023 quarterly Risk Dashboard (RDB), which discloses aggregated statistical information for the largest EU/EEA institutions. EU/EEA’s banks capitalisation stands at record levels, liquidity has improved, while return on equity (RoE) stood at 10.3%. Yet, early signs of credit quality deterioration have become more apparent.[…]