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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Credit Rating Agency Meeting

Chester S. Spatt, Organizer

July 12-13, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Friday, July 12:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Anastasia Kartasheva, Bank for International Settlements
Bilge Yilmaz, University of Pennsylvania
Precision of Ratings

Discussant:  Pete Kyle, University of Maryland


9:30 am


Sergei Kovbasyuk,
Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Optimal Certification Design

Discussant:  Laura Veldkamp, New York University

10:30 am

Break


11:00 am


John Griffin, University of Texas at Austin
Jordan Nickerson, University of Texas at Austin
Dragon Tang, University of Hong Kong
Rating Shopping or Catering? An Examination of the Response to Competitive Pressure for CDO Credit Ratings

Discussant:  Dwight Jaffee, University of California at Berkeley


12:00 pm


Jess Cornaggia, Indiana University
Kimberly J. Cornaggia, American University
Han Xia, University of Texas at Dallas
Revolving Doors on Wall Street

Discussant:  Lauren Cohen, Harvard Business School and NBER

1:00 pm

Lunch


2:00 pm


Milton Harris, University of Chicago
Christian C. Opp, University of Pennsylvania
Marcus Opp, University of California at Berkeley
Bank Regulation with Private-Party Risk Assessments

Discussant: 
Michael Brennan, University of California at Los Angeles


3:00 pm


Jens Josephson, Stockholm University
Joel Shapiro, University of Oxford
Credit Ratings and Security Design

Discussant:  Barney Hartman-Glaser, Duke University

4:00 pm

Break

4:20 pm

Panel Discussion- The Credit Rating Agency Problem and Dodd-Frank

Moderator:      Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

Panelists:         John Coffee, Columbia Law School

                        Jennifer Marietta-Westberg, Securities and Exchange Commission

                        Albert Metz, Moody’s

                        Richard Portes, London Business School and NBER

6:00 pm

Discussion of Research Network

6:15 pm

Adjourn

7:00 pm

Dinner at Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel

Saturday, July 13:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago and NBER
Natalia Kovrijnykh, Arizona State University
Who Should Pay for Credit Ratings and How?

Discussant:  Francesco Sangiorgi, Stockholm School of Economics


9:30 am


Dion Bongaerts, Erasmus University
Can Alternative Business Models Discipline Credit Rating Agencies??

Discussant:  Bo Becker, Stockholm School of Economics and NBER

10:30 am

Break


11:00 am


Anand M. Goel, Navigant Economics
Anjan V. Thakor, Washington University in St. Louis
Why Are Credit Ratings Coarse??


Discussant:  Christine Parlour, University of California at Berkeley

12:00 pm

Lunch


1:00 pm


Richard Stanton, University of California at Berkeley
Nancy Wallace, University of California at Berkeley
CMBS Subordination, Ratings Inflation, and Regulatory-Capital Arbitrage

Discussant:  James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

2:00 pm

Andrew Ellul, Indiana University
Chotibhak Jotikasthira, University of North Carolina
Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina
Yihui Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Is Historical Cost Accounting a Panacea? Market Stress, Incentive Distortions, and Gains Trading

Discussant:  Kathleen Hanley, Securities and Exchange Commission

3:00 pm

Adjourn