London FIT workshops



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The London FIT Network is an informal network of London based (linked) researchers with interests in Financial Intermediation Theory (broadly defined).

Next event

Friday December 06, 2019 - London FIT Workshop at the Department of Economics, University College London (G26).

10:30   Ansgar Walther (Imperial): "Financial policy in an exuberant world"

11:30   Coffee break 

12:00   Fred Malherbe (UCL): “Banking Unions and the International Spillovers of Bank Capital Regulation

13:00   Adjourn 

Past events

Friday October 25, 2019 - London FIT Workshop at the Department of Economics, University College London (B20 Jevons Lecture Theatre).

15.00 Xuan Wang (Oxford): When Do Currency Unions Benefit From Default?

16.00 Coffee break

16.20 Markus Parlasca (Oxford): Time Inconsistency in Stress Test Design

17.20 Adjourn

Friday October 12, 2018 - London FIT Workshop  at the School of Management, University College London

14.30 Coffee, tea, and cookies

14.45 Shengxing Zhang (LSE): Dynamic Liquidity-Based Security Design

15.45 Coffee break 

16.00 Jason Donaldson (WashU): The Opportunity Cost of Collateral 

17.00 Drinks with a 360° view of London


April 13, 2017: Workshop at LBS (LT2)

14.00 Coffee, tea and cookies

14.15 Hongda Zhong (LSE): Debt Structure under Limited Commitment

15.00 Heski Bar-Isaac (LBS): Blockholder Voting

15.45 Coffee break

16.00 Kebin Ma (Warwick): Systemic Risk and Market Liquidity

16.45 Adjourn


December 19-20, 2016: Conference at the London Business School 

EuroFIT Conference on Syndicated Loans

December 19, 2016

13.30    Registration

14.00    Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics): Shock Propagation and Banking Structure (with Farzad Saidi)

Discussant: Sascha Steffen (University of Mannheim)

15.00    Maria Loumioti (MIT): Portfolio Performance Manipulation in Collateralized Loan Obligations (with Florin Vasvari)

Discussant: Cem Demiroglu (Koc University)

16.00    Tea and coffee break

16.30    Matt Gustafson (Penn State): Bank Monitoring: Evidence from Syndicated Loans (with Ivan Ivanov and Ralf Meisenzahl)

Discussant: Matt Plosser (NY Fed)

17.30    Keynote Speaker

Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics): Bad times, good credit (with Kasper Roszbach and Marieke Bos)

Discussant: Tony Saunders (NYU)

18.30    Adjourn

18.45    Reception drinks (everyone welcome - Garden Room)

19.30    Dinner (invitation only)

December 20, 2016

9.00      Tea, coffee and pastries

9.30      Peter Demerjian (University of Washington): Assessing the Accuracy of Forward-Looking Information in Debt Contract Negotiations: Management Forecast Accuracy and Private Loans (with John Donovan and Jared Jennings)

Discussant: Bugra Ozel (UT Dallas)

10.30    Tea and coffee break

11.00    Glen Schepens (ECB): Life below zero: Bank lending under negative policy rates (with Florian Heider and Farzad Saidi)

Discussant: Ralf Meisenzahl (Federal Reserve Board)

12.00    Lunch

13.00    Andrew Bird (Carnegie Mellon): Short-termism Spillovers from the Financial Industry (with Aytekin Ertan, Stephen Karolyi, and Tom Ruchti)

Discussant: Ningzhong Li (UT Dallas)

14.00    Tim Eisert (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Whatever it takes: The real effects of unconventional monetary policy (with Viral Acharya, Christian Eufinger, and Christian Hirsch)

Discussant: Tobias Berg (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

15.00    Adjourn


October 21, 2016: Workshop at LBS (LT10)

14.20     Coffee and Tea

14.30     Frederic Malherbe (LBS): A positive analysis of bank behaviour under capital requirements (with Saleem Bahaj)

15.30     Peter Zimmerman (Oxford): Relationship lending when banks are fragile (with Alan Morrison and Joel Shapiro)

16.30     Mike Mariathasan (KU Leuven): Rational Inattention and Counter-Cyclical Lending standards (with Sergey Zhuk)

17.30     Adjourn


May 13, 2016: Workshop at LBS 

15.00     Coffee and Tea

15.15     Joel Shapiro (Said Business School): Credit Ratings and New Information

16.00     Q&A and comments

16.15     Kebin Ma (Warwick Business School): Bank Information Sharing and Liquidity Risk

17.00     Q&A and comments

17.15     Adjourn


December 14, 2015: JOB MARKET teaser session at LBS

Venue: LBS – Room SG06 

10.30     Coffee and tea

10.40     Pedro Pinto (LSE): Securitization, Non-Recourse Loans and House Prices

11.30     Ansgar Walther (Oxford): Crowding out Disclosure: Amplification and Stress Test Design

12.20     Adjourn


The job-market teaser concept is the following:


November 13, 2015: Workshop at LBS (Room A125)

14:30     Tea, coffee, cookies

14:45     Rish Singhania (Exeter): Bank Deposit Insurance in the Presence of Uninsured Financial Institutions (with Stephen LeRoy)

             (45 min + 15 min Q&A / discussion)

15:45     Break

16:00     Shengxing Zhang (LSE): Endogenous Market Making and Network Formation (with Briana Chang)

              (45 min + 15 min Q&A / discussion)

17.00     Adjourn


October 9, 2015: Workshop at LBS

14.00     Tea and coffee

14.15     Martin Oehmke (Columbia and LSE): Bank Resolution and the Structure of Global Banks (with Patrick Bolton)

15.30     Coffee break

15.45     Christian Julliard (LSE): Information Asymmetries, Volatility, Liquidity, and the Tobin Tax (with Albina Danilova)

17.00     Adjourn


May 15, 2015: Workshop at Imperial

14.00     Registration

14.15     Anatoli Segura (Bank of Italy): Off-balance sheet vehicles, voluntary support and bank reputation

15.30     Coffee break

15.45     Douglas Gale (Imperial): A Model of Bank Capital in which Deposits Have Social Value 

17.00     Brannon Morrison (LBS, ex FDIC): The FDIC during the crisis (provisional title)

18.00     Reception (Ognisko restaurant, Exhibition Road)

 

April 17, 2015: Workshop at LBS

14.15     Tea and coffee

14.30     Ansgar Walther (Oxford): Rules vs. discretion in bank resolution (with Lucy White)

15.30     Discussion

15.45     Coffee break

16.00     Rafael Matta (Amsterdam): Insecure Debt (with Enrico Perotti)

17.00     Discussion

17.15     Drinks (Windsor Castle)

 

December 11-12, 2014: EuroFIT Conference at LBS (click here)


November 28, 2014: JOB MARKET TEASER session at Cass Business School 

14.00     Tea and coffee

14.15     Kebin Ma (Warwick): Self-fulfilling Fire Sales, Bank Runs and Contagion: Implications for Bank Capital and Regulatory Transparency

15.15     Break

15.30     JM Teaser 1: Guillaume Villemey (Sciences-Po): Derivatives and Reisk Management by Commercial Banks 

16.15     JM Teaser 2: Di Gong (Tilburg): Systemic Risk-taking at Banks: Evidences from the pricing of syndicated loans 

17.00     Adjourn


October 3, 2014: Workshop at London Business School (room ELG001, E Wing) 

14.45     Tea and coffee

15.00     Shengxing Zhang (LSE): Collateral Risk, Repo Rollover and Shadow Banking

16.00     Ilaf Scheikh Elard (Oxford): Capital Repatriation, Openness and Financial Crisis

17.00     Adjourn


May 30, 2014: Workshop at London Business School  (Room PLG03)

14.30     Coffee

14.50     Christoph Bertsch (Sveriges Riksbank): A detrimental feedback loop: deleveraging and adverse selection

15.40     Christian Laux (WU Vienna): Regulating Bank CEO Compensation and Active Boards

16.30     Coffee break

16.40     Maxim Nikitin (ICEF Moscow): Globalization, Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Contagion

17.30     Adjourn


December 13, 2013 (afternoon): Job-market teaser session at LBS. 

14.20     Coffee

14.30     Jing Zeng (LSE): Contingent Capital Structure

15.15     Jason Donaldson (LSE): Procyclical Promises

16.00     John Kuong (LSE): Self-fulfilling Fire Sales: Fragility of Collateralised Short-term Debt Markets

16.45     Adjourn


November 29, 2013: Workshop at London Business School  (Room PLG03)

2.15       Welcome coffee

2.30       Vania Stavrakeva (LBS): Optimal Bank Regulation and Fiscal Capacity

3.30       Coffee break

3.45       Afrasiab Mirza (Birmingham): Dynamic Prudential Regulation

4.45       Adjourn


September 27, 2013: Workshop at London Business School  (Room LGH001)

9:45       Welcome coffee

10:00     Farzad Saidi (Cambridge): Information Sensitivity and Scope of Financial Intermediation: What are the Real Effects

11:00     Coffee break

11:15     David Skeie (NY Fed): Federal Reserve Tools for Managing Rates and Reserves

12:15     Adjourn


May 3, 2013: Workshop at London Business School  (Room PLG03)

9:45        Welcome coffee

10:00     Joel Shapiro (Oxford): A Mechanism for LIBOR 

10:50     Coffee break

11:00     Max Bruche (Cass): Debt Maturity and the Liquidity of Secondary Debt Markets 

11:50     Adjourn


March 8, 2013: Workshop at London Business School  (Room SG06)

9.30       Welcome coffee

9.45       Ansgar Walther (Cambridge): Capital and Liquidity Regulation

10.30     Coffee break

10.45     Jason Donaldson (LSE): Investment Mandates and the Downside of Precise Credit Ratings (with Giorgia Piacentino, LSE)

11.30     Adjourn


Conference

The Macroeconomics of Financial Stability

At the London Business School on 4 December 2012. Click here for the programme.

November 30, 2012: Workshop at London Business School  (Room PLG03)

14:00     Max Bruche (Cass): Preventing Zombie Lending

14:45     Ansgar Walther (Cambridge): Capital and Liquidity Regulation (Job market teaser)

15:30     Coffee break

16:00     Toni Ahnert (LSE): Crisis, Coordination, and Contagion (Job market teaser)

16:45     Christoph Bertsch (UCL): A model of liquidity provision with adverse selection (Job market teaser)

17:30     Adjourn

17:30     Drinks at the Windsor Castle


October 12, 2012: Workshop at London Business School (room E202)

09:45    Welcome coffee

10:00    Jing Zeng (LSE): Contingent Capital and Bank Regulation 

10:40    Q&A

11:00    Ana Babus (Imperial): Trading and Information Diffusion in Over-the-Counter Markets

11:40    Q&A


May 11, 2012: Workshop at London Business School

"Communication in Banking Crisis"

 09:45    Welcome coffee

10:00    Joel Shapiro (Oxford): Information Management in Banking Crises

11:00    Questions and answers


March 2, 2012: Workshop at London Business School

"Financial conglomerates and risk taking"

 09:45    Welcome coffee

10:00    Christoph Bertsch (UCL): The banker in a prisoner's dilemma

11:00    Discussion by Jing Zeng (LSE)

11:30    Questions and answers


January 20, 2012: Workshop at London Business School

"Vickers Report / Retail Bank Ring Fence"

 09:45    Welcome and coffee

10:00    Christoph Bertsch (UCL): Overview of the Vickers Ring-fencing proposal

10:30    Fred Malherbe (LBS): Ring-fencing the Banks (work in progress)

11:00    Discussion

Additional Material: 

 

November 10, 2011: Workshop at London Business School

"Liquidity and Capital Requirements"

09:45    Welcome and coffee

10:00    Toni Ahnert (LSE): Systemic Liquidity Requirements (with Benjamin Nelson, BoE)

10:40    Discussion by Christoph Bertsch (UCL) 

11:00    General discussion and comments

11:30    Fred Malherbe (LBS): Dynamic Macro-prudential Policy (work in progress)