We are pleased to invite finance researchers, academics, and practitioners to the 1st Modern Finance Conference (MFC), to be held at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland, on 15-17 September 2024. The event aims to provide a platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research, innovative...

Mit dem Ziel, bis 2045 klimaneutral zu werden, ist Deutschland ambitionierter als alle anderen G-20-Staaten. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, bedarf es einer tiefgreifenden Transformation der Wirtschaft, die mit enormen Investitionen einhergehen muss. Ein Dreh- und Angelpunkt ist die Finanzierung...

The program will include several sessions covering the main areas of International macroeconomics. Sessions and covered topics: International macroeconomics: - Exchange rates and international monetary system; - Monetary policy and inflation risk; - Vulnerabilities and dependencies in supply...

Upon assuming control of Baoshang Bank, Chinese bank regulators announced that they would eschew bailing out large creditors of this city-level distressed bank in full. This paper investigates the consequences of this unexpected deviation from the long-standing full bailout policy. Employing a...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

The topic of the Workshop will be SDGs and Human Rights. Panel 1: SDG 5’s Impact on the Human Rights of Women and Girls ; Panel 2: Human Rights Defenders ; Panel 3: Financing and Governance for Human Rights and the SDGs.

AI Talks @ ETUI is a series of inspiring (online) conversations which focus on the different dimensions of AI - ethical, social, environmental, legal, technological - and their impact on the world of work. Top experts from academia, civil society and online rights organizations, among others,...

This paper studies how banks compete amid digital disruption and the resulting distributional effect across consumers. Digital disruption increases the geographic coverage of banking services, bringing new entrants to local markets. However, as digital customers shift from branches to digital...