12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
      C R E D I T 2014
      The New Financial Regulatory System: Challenges and
        Consequences for
        the 
        Financial Sector
      Venice, Italy
      25 - 26 September 2014
       
      
    
    The objective of the Conference is to bring together academics,
    practitioners and PhD students working in the area of risk
    management.
    The conference this year focuses on The New Financial Regulatory
      System: Challenges and Consequences for the Financial Sector
    and will
    provide an opportunity for participants engaged in research at the
    forefront of this area to discuss both the causes and implications
    of
    recent events in financial markets and may, in turn, suggest
    fruitful
    directions for future research. The Conference is the thirteenth
    of a series dedicated to various aspects of credit risk.
    
    The co-sponsors of the Conference are GRETA Associati
    (Venice, Italy), Center on Sustainable Architecture for Finance
      (SAFE)
      at Goethe University Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany) and Intesa
Sanpaolo
    (Milan, Italy). The Conference is organised under the
    auspices of the Department of Economics of the
      University Ca
      Foscari of Venice, ABI - Italian Banking Association and
    European Investment Bank. 
    
    The Scientific Committee for the Conference consists of: Jan
      Krahnen, Goethe University, Programme Chair, Monica
      Billio, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Steven Ongena,
    University of Zurich, Stephen Schaefer, London Business
    School and
    Kenneth Singleton, Stanford University.
    
    
    PROGRAMME
    Thursday, September 25 2014
      
    
    9.00 - 9.15     Opening
      Remarks
      
    9.15 - 11.00    Session I: Bank
      risk taking, capital structure and credit risk
    
      - Key-note talk: Countering Systemic Risk through Banking
          Regulation
          and Other Means - Franklin Allen (University of
        Pennsylvania,
        Philadelphia & Imperial College London) 
 
      - Did CDS Make Banks Riskier? The Effects of Credit Default
          Swaps on
          Bank Capital and Lending - Susan Chenyu Shan (Shanghai
        Jiao Tong
        University), Dragon Yongjun Tang (The University of Hong Kong)
        and Hong
        Yan (University of South Carolina, Columbia & Shanghai Jiao
        Tong
        University) 
 
      - Incentive Pay and Bank Risk Taking: Evidence from Austrian,
          German, and Swiss Banks - Matthias Efing (University of
        Geneva &
        Swiss Finance Institute), Harald Hau (University of Geneva &
        Swiss
        Finance Institute), Patrick Kampkötter (University of Cologne)
        and
        Johannes Steinbrecher (Ifo Institute Branch Dresden) 
 
    
    11.30 - 13.00   Session II: New
      development in the banking markets
    
      - Do LTV and DSTI Caps Make Banks More Resilient? - Michel
Dietsch
        (Banque de France & University of Strasbourg) and Cécile
        Welter-Nicol (Banque de France) 
 
      - Credit Growth and Bank Capital Requirements: Binding or
          Not? -
        Claire Labonne (Banque de France) and Gildas Lamé
        (INSEE-CREST,
        Malakoff) 
 
      - Conditional Accounting Conservatism and Bank Risk Taking -
        Manuel Illueca (Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana),
        Lars
        Norden (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) and Gregory F. Udell
        (Indiana
        University, Bloomington) 
 
    
    14.30 - 16.00   Session III:
      Capital regulation
    
      - Bank Portfolio Choice, Uninsurable Risks and Regulatory
          Constraints - Jochen Mankart (University of St. Gallen),
        Alexander
        Michaelides (Imperial College Business School, London,
        University of
        Cyprus & CEPR, London) and Spyros Pagratis (Athens
        University of
        Economics and Business) 
 
      - The Counter-Cyclical Capital Buffer of Basel III: Does It
          Affect
          Mortgage Pricing? - Christoph Basten (ETH Zurich &
        Swiss
        Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA) and Catherine Koch
        (University of Zurich) 
 
      - The Limits of Model-Based Regulation - Markus Behn
        (Bonn
        University & Deutsche Bundesbank), Rainer Haselmann (Bonn
        University)
        and Vikrant Vig (London Business School) 
 
    
    17.00 - 18.30   Session IV:
      Systemic risk
    
      - Fire-Sale Spillovers and Systemic Risk - Fernando
        Duarte
        (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) and Thomas M. Eisenbach
        (Federal
        Reserve Bank of New York) 
 
      - The Removal of Credit Ratings from Capital Regulation:
          Implications for Systemic Risk - Kathleen Weiss Hanley
        (University of
        Maryland, College Park) and Stanislava Nikolova (University of
        Nebraska-Lincoln) 
 
      - Systemic and Systematic Risk - Monica Billio
        (University of
        Venice), Massimilano Caporin (University of Padua), Roberto
        Panzica
        (University of Venice & Goethe University Frankfurt) and
        Loriana
        Pelizzon (University of Venice & Goethe University
        Frankfurt) 
 
    
     
    
    Friday, September 26 2014
    
    9.00 - 10.45    Session V:
      Financial markets regulation
    
      - Key-note talk: Equilibrium Fast Trading - Thierry
          Foucault (HEC Paris) 
 
      - Central Clearing and Collateral Demand - Darrell
        Duffie
        (Stanford University & National Bureau of Economic
        Research), Martin
        Scheicher (European Systemic Risk Board) and Guillaume Vuillemey
        (Sciences-Po Paris & Banque de France) 
 
      - Sand in the Chips? Evidence on Taxing Transactions in
          Modern
          Markets - Jean-Edouard Colliard (European Central Bank)
        and Peter
        Hoffmann (European Central Bank) 
 
    
    11.15 - 12.45   Session VI:
      Liquidity and credit
    
      - Did Liquidity Providers Become Liquidity Seekers? Evidence
          the
          CDS-Bond Basis During the 2008 Financial Crisis - Jaewon
        Choi
        (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Or Shachar
        (Federal
        Reserve Bank of New York) 
 
      - Credit and Liquidity in Interbank Rates: a Quadratic
          Approach -
        Simon Dubecq (European Central Bank & CREST), Alain
        Monfort
        (CREST, Malakoff, Banque de France & Maastricht University),
        Jean-Paul Renne (Banque de France) and Guillaume Roussellet
        (Banque de
        France, CREST, Malakoff & CEREMADE, Paris) 
 
      - Liquidity Risk and Distressed Equity - Mamdouh Medhat
        (Copenhagen Business School) 
 
    
    14.15 - 16.00   Session VII:
      Banking Union
    
      - Supervisory Incentives in a Banking Union - Elena
        Carletti
        (Bocconi University, CEPR, London & IGIER, Milan), Giovanni
        Dell'Ariccia (International Monetary Fund & CEPR, London)
        and Robert
        Marquez (University of California, Davis) 
 
      - The Political Economy of Bank Bailouts - Markus Behn
        (Bonn
        University & Deutsche Bundesbank), Rainer Haselmann (Bonn
        University), Thomas Kick (Deutsche Bundesbank) and Vikrant Vig
        (London
        Business School) 
 
      - Key-note talk: Ethics in Finance: a Banking Supervisor's
          Perspective - Ignazio Angeloni (European Central
        Bank) 
 
    
    17.00 - 18.30   PANEL
      Session
      
      
      
    
    REGISTRATION
    
     
    To register for the Conference you are requested to complete the
    registration form that is available on our website
    (
      http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2014/credit2014.htm). 
     
    Registration fees are:
                           
    
            
              
              
              
              
              Early
    registration      
              Late
    registration
            
              
              
              
              
              (within August
    24th)    
              (from August 25th
    on)
     
    Academics:      
              
              
                 250
    Euro +
    VAT       
              300 Euro +
    VAT
    Practitioners:  
              
              
              
        800 Euro +
    VAT      
              1000 Euro +
    VAT
    PhD
    Students*:  
              
              
                 80
    Euro +
    VAT        
              130 Euro + VAT
    
    
    VAT is currently 22% 
    *Students will have to provide valid proof of their student
    status.
    
     
    The registration fees cover:
    - Admission to all scientific sessions
    - Lunches and coffee service during the Conference
    - Conference kit
     
    The registration fees do not fully cover the conference dinner on
    September 25, 2014, for which there is an extra charge of 80.00 Euro
    for
    each participant (conference attendees as well as accompanying
    persons).
     
     
     
    For more detailed information (registration, accommodation and
    Conference
    venue), please refer to the Conference website:
    
    
      
        GRETA Associati 
        San Polo, 2605 - 30125 Venice, ITALY 
        Phone : +39 041 5238178 - Fax : +39 041 5286166 
        e-mail: credit@greta.it 
        website:
        
              www.greta.it