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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

Conference of the Project on Market Institutions and Financial Market Risk

 

Mark Carey, Anil Kashyap, Raghuram Rajan and René Stulz, Organizers

 

June 17-18, 2010

 

Millenium Hilton

55 Church Street, New York, New York

 

Program

 

Thursday, June 17

 

 

8:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast

 

 

8:30 - 10:30

The Behavior of Intoxicated Investors The role of institutional investors in propagating the financial crisis of 2007-2008

 

Alberto Manconi, INSEAD

 

Massimo Massa, INSEAD

 

Ayako Yasuda, University of California Davis

 

 

 

Discussants:  Kent Daniel, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (slides)

 

Ken French, Dartmouth College and NBER (slides)

 

 

 

Securitized Banking and the Run on Repo

 

Gary Gorton, Yale University and NBER

 

Andrew Metrick, Yale University and NBER

 

 

 

Discussants:  Chi-fu Huang, Platinum Grove Asset Management, L.P. (slides)

 

Jeremy Stein, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

10:30 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:45 - 12:45

Measuring Systemic Risk in the Finance and Insurance Sectors

 

Monica Billio, University of Venice

 

Mila Getmansky, University of Massachusetts

 

Andrew Lo, MIT and NBER

 

Loriana Pelizzon, University of Venice

 

 

 

Discussants:  Philipp Hartmann, European Central Bank (slides)

 

Lasse Pedersen, New York University and NBER

 

 

 

Financial Connections and Systemic Risk

 

Franklin Allen, University of Pennsylvania

 

Ana Babus, University of Cambridge

 

Elena Carletti, European University Institute

 

 

 

Discussants:  Mark Flannery, University of Florida (slides)

 

Mark Carey, Federal Reserve Board

 

 

12:45 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

2:00 - 3:00

Financial Innovation and Financial Fragility

 

Nicola Gennaioli, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CREI

 

Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

 

Robert Vishny, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

Discussants:  Richard Evans, Citibank (slides)

 

Matthew Richardson, New York University and NBER

 

 

3:00 p.m.

Break

 

 

3:15 - 5:15

Yesterday’s Heroes: Compensation and Creative Risk-Taking

 

Ing-Haw Cheng, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

 

Harrison Hong, Princeton University

 

Jose Scheinkman, Princeton University

 

 

 

Discussants:  Ira T. Kay, Pay Governance

 

Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

Stronger Risk Controls, Lower Risk: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies

 

Andrew Ellul, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

 

Vijay Yerramilli, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

 

 

 

Discussants:  Charles Calomiris, Columbia University and NBER

 

Michel Crouhy, NATIXIS Corporate and Investment Bank

 

 

7:00 pm

Dinner

 

Keynote Speaker: Peter Fisher, BlackRock

 

 

Friday, June 18

 

 

8:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast

 

 

8:30 - 10:30

Off the Cliff and Back: Credit Conditions and International Trade during the Global Financial Crisis"

 

Davin Chor, Singapore Management University

 

Kalina Manova, Stanford University, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

 

Discussants:  Jeanne Gobat, International Monetary Fund

 

David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

Private Equity Sponsors and the Resolution of Financial Distress

 

Edie Hotchkiss, Boston College

 

David C. Smith, University of Virginia

 

Per Strömberg, Stockholm School of Economics and SIFR

 

 

 

Discussants:  Martin Fridson, Fridson Investment Advisors (slides)

 

Antoinette Schoar, MIT and NBER (slides)

 

 

10:30 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:45 – 12:45

Arbitrage Crashes and the Speed of Capital

 

Mark Mitchell, CNH Partners, LLC

 

Todd Pulvino, CNH Partners, LLC

 

 

 

Discussants:  Darrell Duffie, Stanford University and NBER (slides)

 

David Modest, Soros Fund Management LLC

 

 

 

CMBS Subordination, Ratings Inflation, and the Crisis of 2007-2009

 

Richard Stanton, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

 

Nancy Wallace, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

 

 

 

Discussants:  Viral Acharya, New York University (slides)

 

Otto van Hemert, AQR Capital Management

 

 

12:45 p.m.

Lunch

 

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2:00 – 3:00

The Role of Mortgage Brokers in the Subprime Crisis

 

Antje Berndt, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Burton Hollifield, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Patrik Sandas, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia

 

 

 

Discussants:  Vijay Bhasin, Essent US Holdings

 

Amit Seru, University of Chicago (slides)

 

 

3:00 p.m.

Adjourn