Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance, 4th Annual Conference
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Conferences
Expand your network by meeting top policymakers and researchers as experts from across the globe present and discuss new research on central banks, global economies, and financial systems.
WHY ATTEND?
Learn from global leaders
The conference provides a platform for monetary, financial, and banking experts to present cutting edge research and discuss pressing policy problems
Networking opportunities
Connect with an array of academics, researchers, and policymakers from around the globe. The QCGBF annual conference provides a unique opportunity to grow your network β in a diverse and friendly setting.
Engage and foster research opportunities
If you are an academic or researcher, then applying to (or simply attending) the conference offers you the chance to showcase your work, receive feedback, and collaborate with fellow researchers. Various opportunities are available β from presenting papers or posters, acting as a discussant or taking advantage of the various breaks and social events to push your work to possible collaborators (or referees).
Travel grants
QCGBF takes very seriously issues of accessibility, as reflected in the availability of travel grants for PhD students from all over the UK to attend, and for exceptional young researchers from developing countries.
Programme
MONDAY 1ST JULY
08.15
REGISTRATION
08.45
WELCOME: STEPHEN CECCHETTI
09.00
INTERNATIONAL
The global credit cycle
Nina Boyarchenko (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Discussant: Livio Stracca (ECB)
Capital flows and exchange rates
Andrea Ferrero (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Margaret Davenport (KBS)
Foreign exchange intervention with UIP and CIP deviations
Kenza Benhima (University of Lausanne)
Discussant: Wenqian Huang (BIS)
11.00
COFFEE
Inflation Panel
Chair: Helen Thomas
CEO, BlondeMoney
Professor Ana Galvao
Senior Economist, Bloomberg
Professor Leonardo Melosi
Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
Cynthia Wu
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame
Egon Zakrajsek
Executive vice president & director of research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
12.30
LUNCH
13.30
DIGITAL MONEY
A macroeconomic model of central bank digital currency
Mauricio Ulate (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Discussant: Katrin Assenmacher (ECB)
Back to bank: digital currency, depositsβ substitution and credit
Lorenzo Spadavecchia (Princeton University/Bocconi University)
Discussant: Ilknur Zer (Federal Reserve Board)
Equilibrium implications of monetary regime change
Dirk Niepelt (University of Bern)
Discussant: Oscar Soons (De Nederlandsche Bank)
15.30
COFFEE
16.00
KEYNOTE
Gauti B. Eggertson (Brown University)
17.00
YOUNG ECONOMIST PRIZE
17.15
POSTER SESSION AND DRINKS RECEPTION
Granular Responses to Aggregate Shocks: An Interpretation of Skewness over the Business Cycle
Niklas Schmitz (University of Cambridge)
Two Centuries of Systemic Bank Runs
Tobias Konig (University of Bonn)
Insurers Monitor Shocks to Collateral: Micro Evidence from Mortgage-backed Securities
Ben Guin (Bank of England)
Effects of Information Overload on Financial Markets: How Much Is Too Much?
Ilknur Zer (Federal Reserve Board)
Keep It Simple: Central Bank Communication and Asset Prices
Roxane Spitznagel (ETH Zurich)
Sovereign debt sustainability, the carbon budget and climate damages
Caterina Seghini (Swiss Finance Institute, University of Geneva)
Investing in the green transition and competition from laggards
Johanna Saecker (Goethe University Frankfurt)
TUESDAY 2ND JULY
08.50
WELCOME
9.00
KEYNOTE
Sarah Breeden (Deputy Governor, Financial Stability β Bank of England)
9.50
CLIMATE ECONOMICS
Optimal climate policy in a global economy
Anastasios Karantounias (University of Surrey)
Discussant: Ghassane Benmir (IE)
The green metamorphosis of a small open economy
Florencia Airaudo (Federal Reserve Board)
11.10
COFFEE
11.30
NON-BANK FINANCE
Optimal QE and QT
Paolo Gelain (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
Discussant: Mauricio Salgado Moreno (Bank of England)
Big tech and the credit channel of monetary policy
Cristina Manea (BIS)
Discussant: Leonardo Elias (NY Fed)
12.50
LUNCH
14.00
MONETARY TRANSMISSION
LASH risk and interest rates
Saleem Bahaj (UCL)
Discussant: Aytek Malkhozov (QMUL)
Bank heterogeneity, deposits, deep habits and the pass through of interest rates
Oliver de Groot (University of Liverpool)
Discussant: Rebecca de Simone (LBS)
The effect of monetary policy on inflation heterogeneity along the income distribution
Georg Strasser (ECB)
Discussant: Jenny Chan (Bank of England)
16.00
COFFEE
16.30
FIRESIDE CHAT
21st century principles for monetary policy and strategy
Michael Kiley (Federal Reserve Board)
Interviewer: Fergal Shortall (Bank of England)
17.30
CLOSING REMARKS
The Arcade, Bush House, Strand
WC2B 4PJ London , United Kingdom