Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits

Author(s):Gustavo Cortes and Cameron LaPoint Date:November, 2024 Abstract: Does the housing market lead the financial cycle? We address this question by creating a new hand-collected database spanning a century of monthly building permit quantities and valuations for all U.S. states and the 60 largest MSAs. We show that the option to build embedded in permits[…]

Bank of Finland and CEPR Joint Conference on Frontiers of Monetary Economics in the 21st century: Where and Where to?

CfP Deadline: February 15, 2025 Conference Event: May 13-14, 2025 Event Location: Helsinki, Finland Organizer(s): Bank of FinlandCEPR Keynote Speaker(s): Klaus Adam (University College London and CEPR)Francesco Bianchi (Johns Hopkins University)Swati Dhingra (Bank of England, London School of Economics and CEPR)Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (Brown University and CEPR)Olli Rehn (Bank of Finland) Description: Submission: We invite authors[…]

Workshop on Banking and Institutions

CfP Deadline: January 15, 2025 Conference Event: June 2-3, 2025 Event Location: Strasbourg, France Organizer(s): LaRGE Research Center (University of Strasbourg)Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT)Gabelli School of Business Fordham University (New York) Keynote Speaker(s): Paola Sapienza (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) Description: Submission: Those interested in presenting a paper should submit[…]

Bank of England workshop on Credit Market Interventions

CfP Deadline: January 31, 2025 Conference Event: May 12, 2025 Event Location: London, United Kingdom Organizer(s): Bank of England Description: Submission: Full manuscripts in PDF format should be submitted to CreditInterventionsConference@bankofengland.co.uk. The submission deadline is 31 January 2025. Please note in your submission whether you are willing to act as a discussant. Also, please clearly[…]

Kiel-CEPR Conference: Monetary Policy After the Inflation Surge – What Have We Learned?

CfP Deadline: December 9, 2024 Conference Event: March 12-13, 2025 Event Location: Berlin, Germany Organizer(s): Kiel Institute for the World EconomyCEPR Keynote Speaker(s): Olivier Coibion (University of Texas at Austin) Description: Submission: The deadline for submission is 23:59 GMT on 9 December 2024. We aim to notify successful applications by early January 2025. Only full drafts of[…]

IBEFA Summer Meeting at the 2025 WEAI Conference

CfP Deadline: January 15, 2025 Conference Event: June 20-24, 2025 Event Location: San Francisco, United States Organizer(s): International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA) Description: Submission: Submission Deadline: January 15, 2025 To submit an individual paper or a paper that is part of a session, please begin by registering at the conference planning website (https://www.conftool.pro/ibefa-weai2025/).[…]

LUISS Finance Workshop 2025

CfP Deadline: February 1, 2025 Conference Event: May 15-16, 2025 Event Location: Rome, Italy Organizer(s): Luiss UniversityCEPR Keynote Speaker(s): Manju Puri (Duke University and CEPR) Description: Luiss University, in collaboration with CEPR, is organising, the third edition of the “Luiss Finance Workshop”, which will take place in Rome on 15-16 May, 2025. This year’s workshop[…]

BIS Working Paper – How does fiscal policy affect the transmission of monetary policy into cross-border bank lending? Cross-country evidence

Author(s):Swapan-Kumar Pradhan, Előd Takáts and Judit Temesvary Date:November 15, 2024 Abstract: We use a rarely accessed BIS database on bilateral cross-border bank claims by bank nationality to examine the interaction of monetary and fiscal policies. We find significant interactions: the transmission of the monetary policies of major currency issuers is significantly influenced by the fiscal[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper – Bank Geographic Diversification and Funding Stability

Author(s):Sebastian Doerr Date:November 11, 2024 Abstract: The recent banking turmoil has renewed focus on banks’ branch networks and deposit taking activity. This paper provides novel evidence that the geographic diversification of banks’ deposit base enhances their funding stability. I establish that banks with greater diversification exhibit higher dispersion in deposit growth rates across their branches;[…]