The scientific committee invites theoretical, empirical, and applied submissions in three broad areas: CBDC/cryptocurrencies, decentralised finance, and artificial intelligence/machine learning/big data. Preference will be given to submissions that are relevant to various aspects of...

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...

What is the impact of granular credit risk on banks and on the economy? We provide the first causal identification of single-name counterparty exposure risk in bank portfolios by applying a new empirical approach on an administrative matched bank-firm dataset from Norway. Exploiting the fat...

The AFBC is the most significant and prestigious finance conference in the Asia-Pacific region. It brings together the world's foremost leaders of thought from the financial community, providing international academics and industry professionals with the opportunity to meet and share their...

We are looking for full papers focusing on issues related to financial stability, financial regulation and supervision, systemic risk, banking, macro-prudential policies and other related topics.

This workshop aims to provide a discussion forum on innovative research and to promote the exchange of views for issues related to central banking among researchers of the Bank of Albania, other central banks, academia and other research institutions. Topics of interest: - What causes inflation?...

Das Zweibrücker Symposium der Finanzdienstleistungen widmet sich jährlich den aktuellen Themen der Banken- und Versicherungsbranche. Thema: " Kundenorientierte Finanzdienstleistung - jetzt erst recht?".

Research questions that contributors to the conference might address are: - How do sustainability issues affect different forms of finance for publicly traded firms versus privately held firms (including venture backed, crowdfunded, etc)? - In what ways do FinTech innovations enable...