Calendar and speakers

Past seminars

Friday, June 11, 2021

Fighting Failure: The Persistent Real Effects of Resolving Distressed Banks (pdf)

Speaker: Ivan Ivanov (FRB)

Discussant: Kilian Huber (Chicago Booth)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, May 21, 2021

Does regulation only bite the less profitable? Evidence from the G-SIB framework (pdf)

Speaker: Tirupam Goel (BIS)

Discussant: Karsten Muller (Princeton University)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, May 7, 2021

Motivating Banks to Lend? Credit Spillover Effects of the Main Street Lending Program (pdf)

Speaker: Camelia Minoiu (Federal Reserve Board)

Discussant: Indraneel Chakraborty (Miami Business School)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, April 23, 2021

Monetary Policy and Intangible Investment (pdf)

Speaker: Robin Döttling (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University)

Discussant: Ryan Peters (Tulane University)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, April 9, 2021

Lending to Optimistic Firms (pdf)

Speaker: Filippo De Marco (Bocconi University)

Discussant: Claudia Custodio (Imperial College Business School)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, March 26, 2021

Direct and Indirect Effects of Financial Access on SMEs (pdf)

Speaker: Jing Cai (University of Maryland)

Discussant: Burak Uras (Tilburg University)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, March 12, 2021

Intermediary Financing without Committment (pdf)

Speaker: Yunzhi Hu (UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School )

Discussant: Lev Ratnovski (European Central Bank)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, February 26, 2021

Interbank Networks in the Shadows of the Federal Reserve Act (pdf)

Speaker: Haelim Anderson (FDIC)

Discussant: Mark Carlson (Federal Reserve Board)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, February 12, 2021

Hidden non-performing loans in China (pdf)

Speaker: Tianyue Ruan (NUS)

Discussant: Thomas Flanagan (University of Michigan)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, January 29, 2021

Loan Insurance, Market Liquidity and Lending Standards (pdf)

Speaker: Toni Ahnert (Bank of Canada)

Discussant: Alexandros Vardoulakis (Federal Reserve Board)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, January 15, 2021

Liquidity Creation, Investment, and Growth (pdf)

Speaker: Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School)

Discussant: Ugo Panizza (Graduate Institute)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, December 18, 2020

Information Sharing and Lender Specialization: Evidence from the U.S. Commercial Lending Market

Speaker: Jose Liberti (DePaul and Northwestern)

Discussant: Andrea Presbitero (JHU - SAIS)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, December 4, 2020

Zombie Credit and (Dis-)Inflation: Evidence from Europe (pdf)

Speaker: Matteo Crosignani (NY FED)

Discussant: Geraldo Cerqueiro (Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, November 20, 2020

In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending and the Underbanked (pdf)

Speaker: Emily Williams (Harvard Business School)

Discussant: Emily Gallagher (University of Colorado Boulder)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, November 6, 2020

Real Effects of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Commercial Bank Loans (pdf)

Speaker: Rebecca De Simone (London Business School)

Discussant: Orkun Saka (Sussex and LSE)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, October 23, 2020

The Side Effects of Shadow Banking on Liquidity Provision (pdf)

Speaker: Teodora Paligorova (FRB)

Discussant: Rustom Irani (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides: Presentation; Discussion

Friday, September 25, 2020

Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab (pdf)

Speaker: Ralph De Haas (EBRD)

Discussant: Leora Klapper (The World Bank)

Friday, September 11, 2020

Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit the Target? (pdf)

Speaker: Joao Granja (Chicago Booth)

Discussant: Filippo De Marco (Bocconi University)

Friday, August 28, 2020

Micro-Evidence From a System-Wide Financial Meltdown: The German Crisis of 1931 (pdf)

Speaker: Stephan Luck (NY Fed)

Discussant: Sebastian Doerr (BIS)

Friday, July 24, 2020

Banking Crises Without Panic (pdf)

Speaker: Matthew Baron (Cornell University)

Discussant: Björn Richter (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Friday, July 10, 2020

  • Financial Innovation Payment Choice and Cash Demand – Causal Evidence from the Staggered Introduction of Contactless Debit Cards (pdf)

  • Speaker: Martin Brown (University of St Gallen)

  • Discussant: Sean Higgins (Northwestern University)

Friday, June 26, 2020

All you need is cash: Corporate cash holdings and investment after a crisis (pdf)

Speaker: Neeltje Van Horen (Bank of England)

Discussant: Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan (University of Maryland)

Friday, May 29, 2020

Bank Complexity, Governance, and Risk (pdf)

Speaker: Linda Goldberg (NY Fed)

Discussant: Inaki Aldasoro (BIS)

May 15, 2020

The economic consequences of bankruptcy reform (pdf)

Speaker: Jialan Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Discussant: Sasha Indarte (Duke Fuqua)

April 28, 2020

How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic (pdf) and Income, Liquidity, and the Consumption Response to the 2020 Economic Stimulus Payments (pdf)

Speaker: Constantine Yannelis (Chicago Booth)

Discussant: Arpit Gupta (NYU Stern)