Conference program: Panel 1: Lessons being learned from the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis; Panel 2: Climate change risk in financial markets; Panel 3: A changing clearing landscape.

Topic: Banking and financial services This year’s conference devotes specific attention to the international role of the euro. Other sessions will focus on the challenges to EU banking and capital markets in the digital age.

Topics of interest: - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of the monetary policy and: the pricing of financial assets, the risk taking by banks, the spillover effects to other developed and emerging markets, the financial market liquidity. - Basel III capital and liquidity ratio...

The aim of the workshop is to exchange views and share experiences related to the emerging concept of macroprudential stance, i.e. the approaches used by policymakers to formulate the macroprudential actions they take to achieve financial stability. The focus will be on the European Union and...

Topics: - the evolution of bank business models and risk-taking preferences in response to regulatory change (Basel III) - the implications of the zero bound problem for (SME) lending choices - the existence of multiple policy objectives and private vs government lending - the challenges...

Topics: - Cross border bank lending, domestic credit, and the current account - Domestic and cross-border response of bank credit and leverage to national monetary policies and global liquidity - Econometric issues in modeling the current account, in particular in currency unions. - The role of...

The programme will include policy and academic sessions on the following themes: - Payment choice and global payments - Retail payments in a digital era - faster, cheaper, easier? - User experience, behaviour and trust in retail payments - Innovators, regulators and the competition-cooperation...

The workshop will give researchers and central bankers the opportunity to discuss theoretical work, empirical findings and policy implications related to cross-border banking. Topics: - the role of internationally active banks in the global economy - the effects of crossborder banking on the...

Topics: - financial market incentives and bank funding, - International implications of the evolving models of funding, - the impact of different types of bank funding on the supply of corporate lending (including SME lending) and investment, - corporate bond issuance as a complement/substitute...

Topics: - The impact of government ownership of banks on efficiency, credit and financial stability - Politics and banking - Subsidies implicit in the financial safety net, and how to eliminate them - How to cope with the too-big-to-fail and too-complex-to-fail phenomena - The fiscal costs of...