Bangor to Host Major Financial Sector Conference
Financial experts from across the world will attend a major conference at Bangor Business School next week.
Held in collaboration with the Gulf One Lancaster Centre for Economic Research (GOLCER), the conference will look at Post-Crisis Financial Sector Performance and Risk, with a particular focus on how the crisis has affected performance in terms of profitability, value creation, efficiency and risk management encompassing broad strategic developments.
Experts from institutions across the UK, Europe and the US will be presenting Papers and leading discussions at the conference, which takes place at the Management Centre on Thursday, 23rd of June.
Program for Conference on Financial Sector Performance & Risk
(Post-Crisis)
Special Issue of Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO)
June 23, 2011
Venue: Management Centre, College Road, Bangor University
Bangor, Gwynedd, N Wales, UK
Welcoming Address (9AM – 9.20AM): Philip Molyneux, Head of College of Business, Social Science and Law, Bangor University.
Key Note Address (9.20AM – 10.10AM): “Towards a Program for Financial Stability,” Robert Krainer, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Tea/ Coffee Break 10.10AM – 10.30 AM
Session 1 (10.30AM – 12.30PM): Chair: Steven Ongena, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Paper Presentations 15minutes, Discussant’s Report 10 minutes. Comments from Audience 5 minutes
Paper 1: “Liquidity Spillovers in Sovereign Bond and CDS Markets: An Analysis of The Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis,” Giovanni Calice, Jing Chen, Julian Williams, Southhampton University, Swansea University and Aberdeen University.
Discussant Paper 1: Tomasz Wisniewski and/or Brendan Lambe, University of Leicester, UK
Paper 2: “Rating agencies’ signals during the European sovereign debt crisis: Market impact and spillovers,” Rasha Alsakka, Owain ap Gwilym, Bangor University, UK.
Discussant Paper 2: Miguel Duran, University of Malaga, Spain.
Paper 3: “The role of media in the credit crunch: The case of the banking sector,” Tomasz Wisniewski and Brendan Lambe, University of Leicester, UK
Discussant Paper 3: Steven Ongena, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Paper 4: “Of Religion and Redemption: Evidence from Default on Islamic Loans,” Lieven Baele, Moazzam Farooq and Steven Ongena, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
Discussant Paper 4: Philip Molyneux, Bangor University, United Kingdom.
Lunch (12.30PM – 1.30PM) Venue Management Centre
Session 2 (1.30PM – 3.30PM) Chair: Alexander Gordon, University of Minnesota.
Paper Presentations 15minutes, Discussant’s Report 10 minutes. Comments from Audience 5 minutes
Paper 5: “Operational and reputational risk in the European banking industry: The Market Reaction to Operational Risk Events,” Philipp Sturm, Universität Tübingen, Germany.
Discussant Paper 5: Kartik Anand, Technische Universit¨at Berlin, Germany.
Paper 6: “A Network Model of Financial System Resilience,” Kartik Anand, Simon Brennan, PrasannaGai, Sujit Kapadia, and Matthew Willison, Technische Universit¨at Berlin, Bank of England and The Australian National University.
Discussant Paper 6: Dilek B¨ulb¨ul, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Paper 7: “On the Efficiency of the UPREIT Organizational Form: Implications for the Subprime Crisis and CDO′S,” M. Shahid Ebrahim and Ike Mathur, Bangor University and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Discussant Paper 7: Gordon Alexander, University of Minnesota.
Paper 8: “A comparison of the original and market based market risk framework for the regulation of bank capital,” Gordon Alexander, Alexandre Baptista and Shu Yan, University of Minnesota, George Washington University and South Carolina University.
Discussant Paper 8: Philipp Sturm, Universität Tübingen, Germany.
Tea/ Coffee Break (3.30PM – 3.50PM)
Session 3 (3.50PM – 5.50PM): Arnold Cowan, Iowa State University.
Paper Presentations 15minutes, Discussant’s Report 10 minutes. Comments from Audience 5 minutes
Paper 9: “What determines trust in bank networks. An emprical analysis of the German Savings banks Finance Group?” Dilek B¨ulb¨ul, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Discussant Paper 9: Philip Molyneux, Bangor University, United Kingdom.
Paper 10: “Continuous Workout Mortgages,” Robert Shiller, Rafal Wojakowski, M.S. Ebrahim and Mark Shackleton, Yale University, Lancaster University and Bangor University.
Discussant Paper 10: Jing Chen, Swansea University.
Paper 11: “Off-Balance-Sheet Activity under Adverse Selection: The European Experience,” Miguel Duran and Ana Lozano-Vivas, University of Malaga, Spain.
Discussant Paper 11: Arnold Cowan, Iowa State University.
Paper 12: “The Resolution of Failed Banks During the Crisis: Acquirer Performance and FDIC Guarantees, 2008–2010,” Arnold Cowan and Valentina Salotti, Iowa State University.
Discussant Paper 12: John Wilson, St. Andrews University.
Conference Closing Remarks (5.50PM – 6PM): John Wilson, St. Andrews University.
Conference Dinner (7.30PM – 9.30PM) Venue: Management Centre.
Publication date: 14 June 2011