Program

7th Workshop
Money, Banking, and Financial Markets

Monday, June 8th, 2009

 

12:15-13:00

Registration

13:00-13:15

Welcoming Address

13:15-14:45

Session 1

 

Tobias Körner (Ruhr Graduate School in Economics) Isabel Schnabel (University of Mainz)
“When Do State-owned Banks Hamper Economic Growth?“
Discussant: Jörg Rocholl (European School of Management and Technology)

 

Rainer Haselmann (University of Mainz) Katharina Marsch (University of Mainz) and Beatrice Weder di Mauro (University of Mainz)
“Government Banks and Innovation”
Discussant: Peter Welzel (University of Augsburg)

14:45-15:15

Coffee break

15:15-16:45

Session 2

 

Desislava Andreeva (University of Munich)
“Securitization, Incentives, and Bank Lending”
Discussant: Wolf Wagner (University of Tilburg)

 

Maria Semenova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
“Bank runs and costly information signals”
Discussant: Christina Bannier (Frankfurt School of Finance &
Management)

16:45-17:15

Coffee break

17:15-18:45

Session 3

 

Radoslav Zahariev (University of Konstanz)
“Probability of Default and Optimal Control of Risk within a Firm”
Discussant: Bernd Wilfling (University of Münster)

 

Marina Nikiforow (University of Hannover)
“Do trainings on behavioral finance influence fund managers’ perception and behavior?”
Discussant: Roland Füss (European Business School)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

 

9:00-09:45

Session 4

 

Keynote: Franz Seitz (University of Applied Science Weiden) "Interest in (and) Money: The Real Links"

9:45-10:15

Coffee break

10:15-11:45

Session 5

 

Rolf Scheufele (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
“Does the cost channel matter for inflation dynamics?
An identification robust structural analysis for the US and the Euro area”

Discussant: Jörg Breitung (University of Bonn)

 

Longmei Zhang (University of Frankfurt)
“Bank Capital Regulation, Lending Channel and Business Cycles”
Discussant: Christopher Reicher (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)

11:45-12:00

Coffee break

12:00-13:30

Session 6

 

Vittoria Cerasiy (University of Milano-Bicocca) Alessandro Fedele (University of Brescia)
“Does Product Market Competition Increase Credit Availability?”
Discussant: Achim Hauck (University of Düsseldorf)

Puriya Abbassi (University of Mainz) Isabel Schnabel (University of Mainz)
“Contagion Among Interbank Money Markets During the Subprime Crisis”
Discussant: Axel Lindner (Halle Institute for Economic Research)