Villanova Webinars in Financial Intermediation (WiFI)

Previous Webinars

• Thursday, April 30, 2020 - Allen Berger, University of South Carolina - Bank Sentiment and Liquidity Hoarding (with Hugh H. Kim and Xiaonan (Flora) Ma)

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  • Recording

• Thursday, May 7, 2020 - Anjan Thakor, Washington University in St. Louis - Bank Capital and (Seeing Through) the Illiquidity Fog (with Fenghua Song)

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• Thursday, May 14, 2020 - Phil Strahan, Boston College - Bank Stress Testing: Public Interest or Regulatory Capture? (with Thomas Ian Schneider and Jun Yang)

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• Thursday, May 21, 2020 - Anthony Saunders and Sascha Steffen - What's in the Spread? The Predictive Power of Loan versus Bond Spreads

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• Thursday, May 28, 2020 - Linda Allen - Cutting Operational Costs by Integrating Fintech Firms into Traditional Banking Firms (with Yu Shan, Yi Tang, and Alev Yildirim)

  • Recording

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• Thursday, June 4, 2020 - Viral Acharya - What explains the crash of bank stock prices during COVID-19? The role of health, financial and oil price risks

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• Thursday, June 11, 2020 - Bob DeYoung - Recasting Dividend Tax Theory: Conditioning on Firm Access to External Investment Capital (with Karen Y. Jang)

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• Thursday, June 25, 2020 - Greg Nini - Losing Control? The 20-Year Decline in Loan Covenant Restrictions (with Tom Griffin and David Smith)

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• Thursday, July 9, 2020 - Lucy Chernykh - Deposit Insurance and Regulatory Discipline

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• Thursday, July 16, 2020 - Charles Calomiris - The Spread of Deposit Insurance and the Global Rise in Bank Asset Risk since the 1970s

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• Thursday, July 23, 2020 - Kilian Huber - Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany

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• Thursday, July 30, 2020 - Ricardo Correa - Bank Complexity, Governance, and Risk

  • Recording

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• Friday, September 11, 2020 - Itay Goldstein (Univ. of Pennsylvania) - Liquidity Transformation and Fragility in the US Banking Sector

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• Friday, September 18, 2020 - John Hackney (Univ. of South Carolina) - What is Fueling FinTech Lending? The Role of Banking Market Structure

• Friday, October 2, 2020 - Alvaro Taboada (Mississippi State Univ.) - Are Bank Merger Characteristics Important for Local Community Investment?

• Friday, October 9, 2020 - Scott Frame (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) - Haste Makes Waste: Banking Organization Growth and Operational Risk

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  • Video

• Friday, October 16, 2020 - Christa Bouwman (Texas A&M Univ.) - To Syndicate or Not to Syndicate? That is the Question!

• Friday, October 23, 2020 - No Seminar

• Friday, October 30, 2020 - No Seminar

• Friday, Nov. 6, 2020 - Neeltje van Horen (Bank of England & Univ. of Amsterdam) - Down Payment Constraints, Homeownership, and Household Spending

• Friday, Nov. 13, 2020 - Sam Rosen (Temple Univ.) - Sustainability of Direct Lending: Evidence from Index Exclusion

• Friday, Nov. 20 - Manju Puri (Duke Univ.) - Private Equity and Financial Stability: Evidence from Failed Bank Resolution in the Crisis