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45th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition


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May 6, 2009 to May 8, 2009
Hotel InterContinental
505 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

Wednesday, May 6 | Thursday, May 7 | Friday, May 8

Wednesday, May 6
     
7:30 a.m.   Registration

Continental Breakfast

8:25 a.m.   Welcoming Remarks

  • Douglas D. Evanoff, Senior Financial Economist and Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
8:30 a.m.   The Evolution of a Crisis

Moderator and Discussant
  • Charles M. Kahn, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Amplification Mechanisms in Liquidity Crises (PPT, 304KB)
  • Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University
Costly External Finance, Corporate Investment and the Subprime Mortgage Credit Crisis (PPT, 629KB)
  • Ran Duchin, University of Michigan
  • Oguzhan Ozbas, University of Southern California
  • Berk A. Sensoy, University of Southern California
Stochastic House Appreciation and Optimal Mortgage Lending
  • Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University
  • Alexei Tchistyi, University of California, Berkeley
10:00 a.m.   Break

10:20 a.m.   Banking Relationships in Loan Markets

Moderator and Discussant
Banking Relationships in Loan Markets (PPT, 422KB)
  • Gregory F. Udell, Indiana University
Competition or Collaboration? The Reciprocity Effect in Loan Syndication (PPT, 1.02MB)
  • Jian Cai, Washington University
Price Discovery and Dissemination of Private Information by Loan Syndicate Participants (PPT, 714KB)
  • Robert M. Bushman, University of North Carolina
  • Abbie J. Smith, University of Chicago
  • Regina Wittenberg-Moerman, University of Chicago
The Cost of Being Private: Evidence from Loan Markets (PPT, 256KB)
  • Anthony Saunders, New York University
  • Sascha Steffen, University of Mannheim
12:00 p.m.   Luncheon

1:20 p.m.   Banking Structure and Competition

Moderator and Discussant
Comments (PPT, 656KB)
  • Evren Örs, HEC School of Management
Credit Market Competition and the Nature of Firms (PPT, 536KB)
  • Nicola Cetorelli, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Bank Capital, Borrower Power and Loan Rates (PPT, 720KB)
  • João A. C. Santos, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Andrew Winton, University of Minnesota
Competition and Specialization in Credit Markets (PPT, 298KB)
  • Rebecca Zarutskie, Duke University
Vertical Integration to Avoid Contracting with Potential Competitors: Evidence from Bankers' Banks (PPT, 1.56MB)
  • James S. Linck, University of Georgia
  • James A. Brickley, University of Rochester
  • Clifford W. Smith, University of Rochester
3:10 p.m.   Break

3:30 p.m.   Addressing Bank Risk

Moderator and Discussant
  • Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University
A Framework for Assessing the Systematic Risk of Major Financial Institutions (PDF, 259KB)
  • Xin Huang, University of Oklahoma
  • Hao Zhou, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • Haibin Zhu, Bank for International Settlements
The Determinants of Operational Losses (PDF, 498KB)
  • Anna Chernobai, Syracuse University
  • Philippe Jorion, University of California, Irvine
  • Fan Yu, Claremont McKenna College
Do Government Loan Guarantees Lower, or Raise, Banks' Nonguaranteed Lending?
  • James A. Wilcox, University of California, Berkeley
  • Yukihiro Yasuda, Tokyo Keizai University
5:15 p.m.   Reception

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Thursday, May 7
     
7:00 a.m.   Registration

Continental Breakfast

8:15 a.m.   Welcoming Remarks

  • Charles L. Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
8:30 a.m.   Keynote Address

Introduction
  • Charles L. Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Speaker
Lessons of the Financial Crisis for Banking Supervision
  • Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (via satellite)
9:25 a.m.   Break

9:50 a.m.   Theme Panel—Reforming Financial Regulation

Moderator
  • Daniel G. Sullivan, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Panelists
  • Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
Reforming Financial Regulation (PDF, 146KB)
  • Diane Casey-Landry, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Executive Vice President, American Bankers Association
  • Robert Kuttner, Co-editor, The American Prospect & Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos
  • Hal S. Scott, Nomura Professor and Director of the Program on International Financial Systems, Harvard Law School
Lessons from Public Administration:Recommendations for the Future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Other Aspects of Government's Response to the Financial Debacle (DOC, 73KB)
  • Thomas H. Stanton, Fellow, Center for the Study of American Government, Johns Hopkins University
12:10 p.m.   Luncheon & Keynote Address

Introduction
  • Gordon Werkema, First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Speaker
Remarks
  • Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
1:55 p.m.   Disrupted Credit Markets

Moderator
  • George G. Kaufman Loyola University Chicago & Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis (PDF, 117KB)
  • Amir Sufi, University of Chicago
  • Atif Mian, University of Chicago
  • Francesco Trebbi, University of Chicago
The Federal Home Loan Bank System: The Lender of Next-to-Last Resort? (PPT, 787KB)
  • Adam Ashcraft, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Morten L. Bech, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • W. Scott Frame, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Liquidity Crisis, Runs and Security Design: Lessons from the Collapse of the Auction Rate Municipal Bond Market (PDF, 271KB)
  • Song Han, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • Dan Li, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
3:25 p.m.   Break

3:50 p.m.   Addressing Credit Market Problems?

Moderator
  • Richard J. Rosen, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Where's the Smoking Gun? A Study of Underwriting Standards for U.S. Subprime Mortgages (PPT, 1.56MB)
  • Geetesh Bhardwaj, Vanguard
  • Rajdeep Sengupta, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Incentives and the Rating of Mortgage-Backed Securities (PPT, 1.56MB)
  • Adam Ashcraft, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Paulson's Gift (PDF, 256KB)
  • Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago
  • Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
5:15 p.m.   Reception

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Friday, May 8
     
7:15 a.m.   Continental Breakfast

8:15 a.m.   Mortgage Markets

Moderator
  • Anna Paulson Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Things My Mortgage Broker Never Told Me about Homeownership: Escrow, Property Taxes and Mortgage Delinquency (PDF, 203KB)
  • Nathan B. Anderson, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Jane K. Dokko, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Can Mandated Financial Counseling Improve Mortgage Decision-Making?
  • Sumit Agarwal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • Gene Amromin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • Itzhak Ben-David, Ohio State University
  • Souphala Chomsisengphet, U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
  • Douglas D. Evanoff, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Rating Shopping in CMBS Issuance
  • Andrew Cohen, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
9:45 a.m.   Break

10:05 a.m.   Responding to the Financial Crises: Lessons Learned

Moderator
  • Douglas D. Evanoff, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Panelists
Comments on Responding the the Financial Crisis: Lessons Learned
  • Anil K Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
The Past Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Rhymes: Four Lessons Learned from the Financial Crises (PDF, 152KB)
  • Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan
Ten Lessons from the Crisis
  • Andy Haldane, Executive Director, Financial Stability, Bank of England
Remarks on Responding to the Financial Crisis: Lessons Learned
  • Vincent R. Reinhart, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
12:15 p.m.   Luncheon & Keynote Address

Introduction
  • Charles L. Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Speaker
The Financial Crisis: Causes and Possible Cures
  • John A. Allison IV, Chairman of the Board, BB&T Corporation (Branch Banking & Trust Company)
1:45 p.m.   Session A

    Personal Bankruptcy

Moderator
  • Luca Benzoni, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Seismic Effects of the Bankruptcy Reform
  • Donald P. Morgan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Benjamin Iverson, Harvard Business School
  • Matthew Botsch, University of California, Berkeley
Household Borrowing after Personal Bankruptcy
  • Song Han, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • Geng Li, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Pariahs or Pals: Understanding Peer Influences on the Bankruptcy Decision
  • Ethan Cohen-Cole, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  • Burcu Duygan-Bump, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
    Session B

    Market Discipline and Signals in Banking?

Moderator
  • Hesna Genay, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Who Disciplines Bank Managers?
  • Martin Cihák, International Monetary Fund
  • Andrea M. Maechler, International Monetary Fund
  • Klaus Schaeck, Bangor Business School, Bangor University
  • Stéphanie Stolz, International Monetary Fund
Why Are Yield Spreads on Bank-Issued Subordinated Notes and Debentures Not Sensitive to Bank Risks?
  • Bhanu Balasubramnian, Emporia State University
  • Ken B. Cyree, University of Mississippi
A Market-Based Measure of Credit Quality and Banks' Performance during the Subprime Crisis
  • Martin Knaup, Tilburg University
  • Wolf Wagner, Tilburg University
   

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