BIS – CEPR – Gerzensee – SFI Conference on Financial Intermediation 2025

This conference, known previously as the Swiss Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation or “Lenzerheide Conference,” brings together globally leading researchers to present their latest work on financial intermediation and related areas, covering both empirics and theory.

This year’s conference will feature:

• Keynote speech by Manju Puri (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business & NBER) 

• 12 research paper presentations with discussions

• Two sessions for short presentations and posters

HOW TO APPLY

To submit a paper for presentation, please visit https://www.conftool.pro/swiss-fi-2025. The deadline for submissions is midnight (GMT), Thursday 31 October 2024. Each individual may only submit one paper (although they can be a co-author on other submitted papers). Authors will be notified about the acceptance of papers by end-December, 2024. There is no conference fee and there are no accommodation costs for the invited presenters, discussants and chairs, but participants must cover their own travel costs. We encourage submissions from early-career researchers. Presenting PhD students and postdocs will be eligible for a travel grant to cover part of their costs. 

FURTHER INFORMATION

The academic programme starts Monday morning (31 March) and ends Wednesday (2 April) at noon. Preference will be given to participants who can stay for the whole duration of the conference. Participants should plan to arrive Sunday afternoon (30 March) and leave Wednesday afternoon (2 April). As paper sessions take place in the morning and late afternoon, there is ample time for discussion and collaboration during the conference days. The Study Center Gerzensee also offers the opportunity for participants to stay on after the conference for co-working.

The conference is committed to promoting high-quality diversity in the covered topics (including e.g. non-bank financial institutions, macro-finance, climate/green finance, household finance, and fintech), in the modelling techniques and data sets employed, and in the background of the participants.

The Study Center Gerzensee will generously sponsor accommodation costs and meals during the conference, with a contribution from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Other supporting institutions are the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)  and the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI). 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Thorsten Beck (European University Institute & CEPR)
Tobias Berg (Goethe University Frankfurt, IWH Halle & CEPR)
Diana Bonfim (Banco de Portugal, European Central Bank, Católica Lisbon & CEPR)
Claire Célérier (University of Toronto & CEPR)
Jean Edouard Colliard (HEC Paris & CEPR)
Ralph De Haas (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, KU Leuven & CEPR)
Hans Degryse (KU Leuven & CEPR)
Andrew Ellul (Indiana University & CEPR)
Leonardo Gambacorta (Bank for International Settlements & CEPR)
Florian Heider (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, Goethe University & CEPR)
Marie Hoerova (European Central Bank & CEPR)
Vasso Ioannidou (Bayes Business School & CEPR)
Charles Kahn (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Elena Loutskina (University of Virginia)
Stephan Luck (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Pierre Mabille (INSEAD & CEPR)
Frédéric Malherbe (University College London & CEPR)
David Martinez-Miera (Carlos III & CEPR)
Ralf Meisenzahl (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Caterina Mendicino (European Central Bank)
Camelia Minoiu (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Steven Ongena (University of Zurich, SFI, KU Leuven & CEPR)
Evren Örs (HEC Paris)
Michaela Pagel (Washington University in St. Louis & CEPR)
Pascal Paul (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Giorgia Piacentino (University of Southern California & CEPR)
Andrea Presbitero (International Monetary Fund & CEPR)
Jean-Charles Rochet (Toulouse School of Economics & CEPR)
Kasper Roszbach (Norges Bank & University of Groningen)
Farzad Saidi (University of Bonn & CEPR)
Daniel Streitz (IWH Halle)
Pascal Towbin (Swiss National Bank)
Victoria Vanasco (CREI & CEPR)
Neeltje van Horen (Bank of England & CEPR)
Wolf Wagner (Erasmus University Rotterdam & CEPR)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Christoph Basten (European Central Bank & CESifo)
Martin Brown (Study Center Gerzensee & University of St. Gallen)
Sebastian Doerr (Bank for International Settlements & CEPR)
Andreas Fuster (EPFL, SFI & CEPR)
Emilia Garcia-Appendini (Norges Bank & University of St. Gallen)

Involved are: www.bis.org / www.cepr.org / www.szgerzensee.ch / www.sfi.ch

For additional information, see https://www.swiss-fi.com/