MoFiR 2024 - Program

Venue: Day 1: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, E14 4BG, London

10:30-11:00   Registration and coffee

11.00-11.10    Welcome by Ralph De Haas (EBRD, KU Leuven and CEPR)

10:40-12:20   Session 1 | Credit guarantees and deposit insurance

   Session chair: Ralph De Haas (EBRD, KU Leuven and CEPR)

   Paper 1: The Effects of Big Data on Commercial Banks

   Xiao Yin (University College London)

   Discussant: Thomas Mosk (Queen Mary University London) 

   Paper 2: The Distortive Effects of Deposit Insurance : Administrative Evidence from Deposit and Loan Accounts

   Stefano Pica (Bank of Italy)

   Discussant: Francesc Rodriguez-Tous (Bayes Business School, CEPR)

12:20-13:20   Lunch

13:20-15:00   Session 2 | Bank regulation and governance

          Session chair: Thomas Mosk (QMUL)

   Paper 1: The Political Economy of Financial Regulation

   Rainer Haselmann (Goethe University Frankfurt, CEPR)

   Discussant: Thomas Lambert (Erasmus University Rotterdam, CEPR)

   Paper 2: The Effect of Minority Bank Ownership on Minority Credit

   Agustin Hurtado (University of Maryland)

   Discussant: Larissa Schäfer (Frankfurt School, CEPR)

15:00-15:20   Coffee break

15:20-17:00   Session 3 | Bank supervision and monetary policy

   Session chair: Cevat Giray Aksoy (EBRD, King’s College London and CEPR)

   Paper 1: The Disciplining Effect of Bank Supervision: Evidence from SupTech

   Hans Degryse (KU Leuven, CEPR)

   Discussant: Rainer Haselmann (Goethe University Frankfurt, CEPR)

   Paper 2: Climate Risk, Bank Lending and Monetary Policy

   Andrea Polo (Einaudi Institute, CEPR)

   Discussant: Giorgia Barboni (University of Warwick, CEPR)

17:00-17:20   Coffee break

17:20-18:50   Keynote lecture: The Role of Financial Markets in Optimal Taxation and Enforcement: Evidence from the Mumbai Real Estate Market 

    Professor Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial, CEPR)

    Introduction by Thomas Mosk (QMUL)

19:30       Drinks and Dinner (by invitation only)

Venue Day 2: Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS

08:40-09:00   Registration and coffee

09:00-10:00   Session 4 | PhD Student Presentations

   Session chair: Thomas Mosk (QMUL)

   Siema Hashemi (Center For Monetary And Financial Studies)

   Gianmarco Ruzzier (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

   Cem Soner (Bangor University)

   Yasmine Van der Straten (University of Amsterdam)

   Tong Zhao (Ku Leuven)

10:00-10:20   Coffee break

10:20-12:00   Session 5 | Big Data and Banking

   Session chair: Antoine Uettwiller (QMUL)

   Paper 1: Decomposing Employment Effects of a Government Support Program: Hires, Exits and Reallocation

   Diana Bonfim (Banco de Portugal, CEPR)

   Discussant: Tim Eisert (Nova School of Business and Economics, CEPR

   Paper 2: Algorithmic Underwriting in High Risk Mortgage Markets

   David Zhang (Rice University)

   Discussant: Ansgar Walther (Imperial, CEPR)

12:00-13:00   Lunch

13:00-14:40   Session 6 | Financial stability and regulation

   Session chair: Alberto Zazzaro (University of Naples Federico II)

   Paper 1: Failing Banks

   Emil Verner (MIT, CEPR)

   Discussant: Daniel Ferreira (LSE, CEPR)

   Paper 2: Intermediary Balance Sheet Constraints, Bond Mutual Funds' Strategies, and Bond Returns

   Martin Waibel (Stockholm School of Economist)

   Discussant: Barbara Casu (Bayes Business School)

Organizing committee

Ralph De Haas (EBRD, KU Leuven and CEPR)

Thomas Mosk (Queen Mary University London)

Andrea F. Presbitero (International Monetary Fund, MoFiR and CEPR)

Alberto Zazzaro (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and MoFiR) 

Venue: 

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, E14 4BG, London (day 1)

Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS (day 2)