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The banking sector is undergoing rapid technological change. This creates opportunities as well as challenges for the banks, and potentially has implications for financial stability and financial regulation. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers in different fields of finance and economics to discuss current issues in banking, financial stability, and financial regulation. We are inviting high quality submissions of both theoretical and empirical nature on micro- and macroeconomic aspects of financial intermediation. Topics could include, but are not limited to:

Technological advances and access to credit;

Changing business models of banks and financial stability;

Evolving competition in the financial sector;

The adequacy of micro and macro-prudential policies to safeguard financial stability;

The resolution of failed banks and too-big-to-fail (TBTF);

The transmission of monetary policy;

Information production and disclosure (e.g., stress tests, accounting statements) and its impact on market discipline and financial stability;

Corporate governance at financial institutions;

The internationalization of the banking sector.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 15th, 2020.

Papers should be submitted electronically to [email protected] along with your affiliation and email address. Authors of accepted papers will be contacted by March 1st, 2020. Economy class travel and accommodation for invited participants will be covered.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

The conference will be held at Tilburg University. Tentatively, the program starts Thursday June 4th at 9:00 and ends Friday at 16:00. The program will include up to 10-12 papers with their discussions, leaving ample time for comments from the audience and for interaction among participants. Presenters and discussants are expected to attend for the whole duration of the conference. More details about the conference and the venue can be found at:

https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/ebc

ORGANISERS:

Fabio Castiglionesi (EBC, Tilburg University), Vasso Ioannidou (Lancaster University and CEPR), Louis Raes (EBC, Tilburg University), Thorsten Lehnert (Luxembourg School of Finance)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed):

After eight successful workshops in Ancona (2012, 2013, 2014, 2018), Kobe (2015), Chicago (2016, 2019) and London (2017) the Money and Finance Research Group (MoFiR), together with the Banco de Portugal and the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, are pleased to announce the next workshop will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 4-5 June, 2020.

The organising committee of this small informal workshop invites submissions of high-quality theoretical and empirical research on financial intermediation. Scholars in the fields of banking and finance will meet to discuss current issues in banking, financial stability, and financial regulation, focusing on policy reforms for a stable global financial environment. The workshop will provide an opportunity for presentations and discussions about policy-relevant research in an informal and highly interactive environment.

The keynote speaker will be Murillo Campello (Cornell University and NBER)

This year the workshop will include an additional half-day (3 June, afternoon) at ISEG, Lisbon, on SME financing, with invited speakers.

Travel costs (airfare) for presenters and invited discussants will be reimbursed for an amount up to ?500 for domestic travelers and ?1,500 for overseas travelers. There is no conference fee, and all meals are included, but participants must cover their own accommodation costs.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: To submit a paper (full papers accepted only), please visit the call for papers webpage https://portal.cepr.org/9th-mofir-workshop-banking https://portal.cepr.org/9th-mofir-workshop-banking. The deadline for submission is 6pm (GMT), Sunday 15 December 2019. If you do not currently have a CEPR account, please create a new profile here https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mandy Chan, Senior Events Officer at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8804 for assistance (with subject header "9th MoFiR Workshop on Banking").

DUAL SUBMISSION OPTION: In the submission, authors should indicate if they wish their paper to be considered (at no extra fee) for publication by RCFS under the Dual Submission Program. This is a "no-fault" submission option: if the RCFS reviews the paper and rejects it, the authors may submit it to any SFS journal at a later date as if it was never submitted. See http://sfs.org/dualsubmissionpolicy/ for details.

Papers will be selected by the program committee and corresponding authors will be notified of acceptance by 1 March, 2020. Given capacity constraints and to promote an active discussion, preference will be given to authors who can attend the whole workshop.

Programme Committee: Pietro Alessandrini (Università Politecnica delle Marche and MoFiR), Lamont Black (DePaul University), Martin Brown (University of St. Gallen), Nicola Cetorelli (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Claire Célérier (University of Toronto), Hans Degryse (KU Leuven and CEPR) Ralph De Haas (EBRD and Tilburg University and CEPR), Andrew Ellul (Indiana University, ECGI and CEPR), Michele Fratianni (Università Politecnica delle Marche and MoFiR), Jon Frost (Bank for International Settlements), Leonardo Gambacorta (Bank for International Settlements and CEPR), Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR) , Arpit Gupta (NYU Stern), Nandini Gupta (Indiana University), Kinda Hachem (University of Virginia), Vasso Ioannidou (Lancaster University and CEPR), Rustom M. Irani (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and CEPR), Sebnem Kalezmi Ozcan (University of Maryland, NBER and CEPR), José María Liberti (DePaul University, Northwestern University and MoFiR), David Martinez, Miera (Universidad Carlos III and CEPR), Raoul Minetti (Michigan State University), Camelia Minoiu (Federal Reserve Board), Steven Ongena (University of Zurich, SFI and CEPR), Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF, EIEF and CEPR), Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern University), Sergio Schmukler (The World Bank and MoFiR), Enrico Sette (Bank of Italy), Janis Skrastins (Washington University in St. Louis), Sascha Steffen (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Jason Sturgess (Queen Mary University of London), Hirofumi Uchida (Kobe University and MoFiR), Gregory Udell (Indiana University and MoFiR), Iichiro Uesugi (Hitotsubashi University and MoFiR)

Local Organising Committee: Diana Bonfim (Banco de Portugal and Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics), Geraldo Cerqueiro (Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics), Cláudia Custódio (Imperial College Business School and CEPR), Andrea F. Presbitero (International Monetary Fund and MoFiR), Alberto Zazzaro (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and MoFiR)

Additional Information: MoFiR and workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/mofir2020/home Location: Banco de Portugal ( https://www.bportugal.pt/en/ ) and Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics ( https://www.clsbe.lisboa.ucp.pt )

The recent global financial crisis has sparked renewed interest in the interwar financial and banking crises, particularly those associated with the Great Depression of the 1930s. This new wave of research has been supported by an unprecedented increase in the digitisation of monetary and financial statistics as well as data on local economic activity and businesses. The digitisation of newspapers, central bank and parliamentary reports in several countries improves access to archival sources, opening new perspectives on the political economy of these crises.

Remarkable progress has been made in our understanding of domestic or international financial contagion (through interbank networks), as well as the real effects of banking crises. However, this new wave of research has remained little comparative, and most of the work has focused on the contagion and consequences of the 1930-1931 banking troubles.

The first objective of this conference is to be truly comparative by bringing together researchers working on numerous different countries. The second is to extend the scope of the analysis by considering the entire period between the two world wars. We are very interested in articles that attempt to explain the financial vulnerabilities of the early 1930s by examining the accumulation of risk (and the first financial crises) that started in the aftermath of the First World War. Third, the conference aims to examine the entire financial system, investigating the relationships between stock markets, banks and non-bank financial institutions (including public financial entities). Fourth, we also welcome papers that study how financial and banking systems were fixed in countries exiting crises.

Paper submission

Please send full papers or extended abstracts (3 - 5 pages) by Monday 16 December 2019

Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission on the following registration link https://portal.cepr.org/new-perspectives-interwar-financial-and-banking-crises. Please also indicate in your submission whether you would be interested in being a discussant as well. If you are not a CEPR member, please create a CEPR profile at https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above to make a submission. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mandy Chan, Senior Events Officer at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8804.

Selected authors will be notified of acceptance on Wednesday 15th January 2020.

Conference organisers can cover the accommodation and travel costs of speakers who need it (please indicate this, if applicable, when submitting your paper).

Location: Paris School of Economics, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, Paris, France

Organisers: Eric Monnet (PSE, EHESS, CEPR) and Angelo Riva (EBS, PSE)

Scientific Committee: Olivier Accominotti (LSE and CEPR), Stéphanie Collet (SAFE, Frankfurt), Natacha Postel-Vinay (LSE and CEPR), Gary Richardson (UC Irvine), Tobias Straumann (University of Zurich)