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...

Topics: 1) Sources of financial frictions: - Sources of liquidity - Reasons of market incompleteness and dysfunctions - Role of banks 2) Financial frictions in macromodels - Financial sector and real economy - Sources and consequences of financial crises - ‘Sudden stops’, financial contagion...

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 •...