The North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society will be held in San Antonia, Texas in January as part of the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association.

For over 50 years, the European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society have fostered interaction among young scholars and a group of more senior academics representing different regions and fields of specialisation. At the turn of the century, the meetings began to focus on PhD students...

The workshop, titled "Solving dynamic equilibrium models", will present methods used to solve macroeconomic models. The lectures will focus on dynamic programming, the value function iteration and perturbation methods, with applications to a variety of topics, from the consumption-saving choice...

Annual congresses feature traditionally two plenary lectures, in addition to the Presidential Address, and consist of a number of invited sessions and panel debates as well as contributed papers sessions. Since 2003, the EEA congress has been held jointly with the Econometric Society. EEA-ESEM...

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...

A workhorse two-country portfolio model that embeds net foreign asset (NFA) imbalances rationalizes the following observation: debtor countries have on average a less diversified international portfolio than creditor countries. Abstracting from NFA imbalances, the model would feature a...

We estimate empirically the impact of the insolvency and bankruptcy code (IBC) on corporate leverage in India. The analysis builds on the Prowess database. For the estimations we use the difference in differences approach, where listed firms are used as the control group. We find that the IBC...

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 2023 North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society will be held in New Orleans, LA on January 5-8, 2023 as part of the annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association. The program will consist of contributed and invited papers, and will start with a Presidential Address...