6th Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation

Lenzerheide, Switzerland
25 – 27 February, 2013

The conference will be jointly organized in cooperation with the European Banking Center, the CEPR and the University of St. Gallen.

Keynote speaker: David Thesmar (HEC Paris and CEPR)

Conference program
For a more detailed overview please click.

Conference papers

• Jose Liberti, De Paul University
  The Anatomy of a Credit Supply Shock: Evidence from an Internal Credit Market
• Ander Perez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  Credit Lines as Monitored Liquidity Insurance: Theory and Evidence
• Sascha Steffen, ESMT
  Syndication, Interconnectedness, and Systemic Risk
• Consuelo Silva-Buston, Tilburg University
  Active Risk Management and Banking Stability
• Diana Bonfim, Banco de Portugal
  Liquidity risk in banking: is there herding?
• Nicola Gennaioli, Universitá Bocconi
  Money Doctors
• Dion Bongaerts, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  Can Alternative models discipline credit rating agencies?
• Matthias Schaller, University of St. Gallen
  Information or Insurance? On the Role of Loan Officer Discretion in Credit Assessment
• Enrico Sette, Banca D'Italia
  Credit Supply During a Sovereign Crisis
• Lev Ratnovski, International Monetary Fund
  Banking and Trading
• Florian Heider, European Central Bank
  A Theory of Bank Liquidity Bank Liquidity Requirements

Further information
The conference will be held at the Hotel Schweizerhof in the mountain resort of Lenzerheide.
The program starts Monday morning at 08:00 and ends Wednesday at noon. Due to capacity constraints, preference will be given to participants who can stay for the whole duration of the conference. Participants should plan to arrive Sunday evening and leave Wednesday afternoon. A block-reservation has been made by the organisers at the Hotel Schweizerhof at very preferential rates. The European Banking Center (Tilburg University) and the Swiss National Bank will sponsor the opening reception and meals during the conference. There will be around ten papers and discussions, leaving ample time for reflection and outdoor activities. Besides skiing, Lenzerheide is a very attractive resort for winter-hiking, sledging or just relaxing.

Program Committee:
Arnoud Boot (Amsterdam & CEPR)
Martin Brown (University of St. Gallen): Local organiser
Liam Brunt (NHH & CEPR)
Hans Degryse (KU Leuven, Tilburg & CEPR): Program chair
Giovanni Dell’Ariccia (IMF & CEPR)
Vasso Ioannidou (Tilburg)
Charles Kahn (Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Steven Ongena (Tilburg & CEPR)
Marco Pagano (Naples & CEPR)
Rajdeep Sengupta (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Greg Udell (Indiana University)
Lucy White (Harvard Business School & CEPR)

Financial arrangements
There is no conference fee but participants must cover their own travel and accommodation costs.

Call for Papers

The submission deadline has been closed. The organising committee of this small, informal conference has been invited submissions of high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.