13th 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), *Research Center SAFE *at Goethe University Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany), *Intesa Sanpaolo *(Milan, Italy) and SYRTO - SYstemic Risk TOmography*-* a project funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7-SSH/2007-2013) Grant Agreement n° 320270. 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 Institute.* The Scientific Committee for the Conference consists of: *Jan Krahnen*, Goethe University & SAFE,**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* (Wharton 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) - _Discussant:_ Stephen Schaefer**(London Business School) /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) - _Discussant:_ Marcella Lucchetta (Ca? Foscari University of Venice) 11.30 - 13.00_Session II: New development in the banking markets_ /Do LTV and DSTI Caps Make Banks More Resilient?, /Michel Dietsch (University of Strasbourg & Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority - Banque de France) and Cécile Welter-Nicol (Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority - Banque de France) - _Discussant:_ Paul Schempp**(University of Bonn & Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) /Credit Growth and Bank Capital Requirements: Binding or Not?, /Claire Labonne (Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority - Banque de France) and Gildas Lamé (INSEE-CREST, Paris) - _Discussant:_ Andrea Giacomelli**(Ca? Foscari University of Venice & GRETA, Venice) /Conditional Accounting Conservatism and Bank Risk Taking, /Manuel Illueca (University Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana), Lars Norden (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Gregory F. Udell (Indiana University, Bloomington) - _Discussant:_ Umberto Cherubini**(University of Bologna) 14.30 - 16.00_Session III: Capital regulation_ /A Dynamic Model of Banking with Uninsurable Risks and Regulatory Constraints/, Jochen Mankart (Deutche Bundesbank), Alexander Michaelides (Imperial College Business School, London, CEPR, London & NETSPAR, Tilburg) and Spyros Pagratis (Athens University of Economics and Business) - _Discussant:_ Arjen Siegmann**(Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) /Higher Bank Capital Requirements and Mortgage Pricing: Evidence from the Counter-Cyclical Capital Buffer, /Christoph Basten (ETH Zurich & Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA) and Catherine Koch (University of Zurich) - _Discussant:_ Jongsub Lee**(University of Florida, Gainesville) /The Limits of Model-Based Regulation, /Markus Behn (Bonn University & Deutsche Bundesbank), Rainer Haselmann (Bonn University) and Vikrant Vig (London Business School) - _Discussant:_ Steven**Ongena**(University of Zurich) 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) - _Discussant:_ Harald Scheule**(University of Technology, Sydney) /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) - _Discussant:_ Giovanni Zambruno**(Milano Bicocca University) /Systemic and Systematic Risk, /Monica Billio (Ca? Foscari University of Venice), Massimilano Caporin (University of Padua), Roberto Panzica (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Loriana Pelizzon (Ca? Foscari University of Venice & Goethe University Frankfurt) - _Discussant:_ Simonetta Iannotti**(Bank of International Settlements, Basel) 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) - _Discussant:_ Mario Bellia**(Ca? Foscari University of Venice & Goethe University Frankfurt) /Sand in the Chips? Evidence on Taxing Transactions in Modern Markets, /Jean-Edouard Colliard (European Central Bank) and Peter Hoffmann (European Central Bank) - _Discussant:_ Rémy Praz**(EPFL, Lausanne) 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) - _Discussant:_//Alessandro Fontana**(European Commission Joint Research Centre) /Credit and Liquidity in Interbank Rates: a Quadratic Approach, /Simon Dubecq (European Central Bank & CREST), Alain Monfort (CREST, Banque de France & Maastricht University), Jean-Paul Renne (Banque de France) and Guillaume Roussellet (Banque de France, CREST & CEREMADE, Paris) - _Discussant:_ Jens Dick-Nielsen**(Copenhagen Business School) /Liquidity Risk and Distressed Equity, /Mamdouh Medhat (Copenhagen Business School) - _Discussant:_ Jean-Cyprien Héam**(Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority - Banque de France & CREST) 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) - _Discussant:_ Elisa Luciano**(University of Turin & Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin) /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) - _Discussant:_ Nadia Linciano**(CONSOB) 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 <http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2014/credit2014.htm>). 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