Topics: a. Mark to market accounting b. Opacity of banks’ assets c. The role of credit rating agencies d. Corporate governance, risk taking and disclosure e. Disclosure regulation f. Market discipline and its role during the banking crisis

Topics may include, but are not limited to: • Business cycles and bank credit standards • Macroeconomic conditions, risk taking by banks and procyclicality • Procyclicality of capital requirements and implications for monetary policy • Procyclicality of financial regulation •...

This conference is aimed at investigating the relationship between financial structure, corporate governance and firm performance in highly competitive and integrated markets. Questions of interest include (but are not limited to): • What are the determinants of the ownership modes across...