Organized around the theme of “Competition and Cooperation in a Rebalancing World Economy,” the symposium will explore the critical challenges, emerging trends, and diverse factors shaping the United States and European economies in 2024 and beyond, and the implications these currents have...

TOPICS We solicit theoretical and empirical papers on the interactions between sovereign bond markets and conventional and unconventional monetary policy, regulation, fiscal policy, foreign exchange, and the macroeconomy in inflationary times. Topics of interest include (but are not limited...

The abrupt end of the low-interest-rate period together with the rise in inflation and the disruptions caused by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine fundamentally change the business environment for financial intermediaries. Technological advances and new climate-related risks also put...

The organising committee invite young academics (PhD students and postdocs) dealing with theoretical or theoretically founded empirical research on banks and financial markets to submit a paper or a project outline for presentation at the 11th Workshop Banks and Financial Markets. Topics of...

We solicit theoretical and empirical papers on the interactions between sovereign bond markets and conventional and unconventional monetary policy, regulation, fiscal policy, foreign exchange, and the macroeconomy in unstable times. Topics of interest include (but are not limited...

Upon assuming control of Baoshang Bank, Chinese bank regulators announced that they would eschew bailing out large creditors of this city-level distressed bank in full. This paper investigates the consequences of this unexpected deviation from the long-standing full bailout policy. Employing a...

A workhorse two-country portfolio model that embeds net foreign asset (NFA) imbalances rationalizes the following observation: debtor countries have on average a less diversified international portfolio than creditor countries. Abstracting from NFA imbalances, the model would feature a...

We estimate empirically the impact of the insolvency and bankruptcy code (IBC) on corporate leverage in India. The analysis builds on the Prowess database. For the estimations we use the difference in differences approach, where listed firms are used as the control group. We find that the IBC...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...