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)
Slides: Presentation; Discussion
Friday, September 11, 2020
Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit the Target? (pdf)
Speaker: Joao Granja (Chicago Booth)
Discussant: Filippo De Marco (Bocconi University)
Slides: Presentation; Discussion
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)
Slides: Presentation; Discussion
Friday, July 24, 2020
Banking Crises Without Panic (pdf)
Speaker: Matthew Baron (Cornell University)
Discussant: Björn Richter (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Slides: Presentation; Discussion
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)
Slides: Presentation; Discussion
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)
Slides: Presentation; Discussion
Friday, May 29, 2020
Bank Complexity, Governance, and Risk (pdf)
Speaker: Linda Goldberg (NY Fed)
Discussant: Inaki Aldasoro (BIS)
Slides: Presentation; Discussion
May 15, 2020
The economic consequences of bankruptcy reform (pdf)
Speaker: Jialan Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Discussant: Sasha Indarte (Duke Fuqua)
Slides: Presentation; Discussion
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)
Slides: Presentation; Discussion