Financial Cycles, Liquidity, and Securitization
International Monetary Fund
Washington, D.C.
April 18, 2008
Washington, D.C.
April 18, 2008
The recent financial turmoil has highlighted the importance of the linkages between liquidity, financial innovation, and the real economy. An IMF conference on Financial Cycles, Liquidity, and Securitization served as a forum for experts conducting research on these issues to exchange views.
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Agenda
| Session I: Financial Cycles around the World | |
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| Chair: Stijn Claessens (Assistant Director, Research Department, IMF) | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Liquidity, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy |
| Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University) and John Moore (London School of Economics) | |
| An Anatomy of Credit Booms: Evidence from Macro Aggregates and Firm Level Data | |
| Enrique G. Mendoza (University of Maryland) and Marco E. Terrones (IMF) | |
| Discussants: Olivier Jeanne (IMF) and Simon Gilchrist (Boston University) | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session II: Liquidity and Interbank Markets | |
| Chair: Hervé Ferhani (Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF) | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Liquidity and Leverage |
| Hyun Song Shin (Princeton University) and Tobias Adrian (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) | |
| Hazardous Times for Monetary Policy: What Do Twenty-Three Million Bank Loans Say About the Effects of Monetary Policy on Credit Risk? | |
| Jesús Saurina (Bank of Spain), Gabriel Jiménez (Bank of Spain), Steven Ongena (Tilburg University), and José Luis Peydró (ECB) | |
| Discussants: Laura Kodres (IMF) and Enrica Detragiache (IMF) | |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Luncheon - IMF Reception Hall (by invitation only) Keynote Speech: Randall Kroszner (Governor, Federal Reserve Board) |
| Session III: Securitization and Supply of Credit | |
| Chair: Asli Demirguc-Kunt (Senior Research Manager, World Bank) | |
| 2:15 p.m. | Securitization and the Declining Impact of Bank Financial Condition on Loan Supply: Evidence from Mortgage Acceptance Rates |
| Elena Loutskina (University of Virginia) and Philip Strahan (Boston College) | |
| Credit Booms and Lending Standards: Evidence from the Sub-Prime Mortgage Market | |
| Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Deniz Igan, and Luc Laeven (IMF) | |
| Discussants: Takeo Hoshi (University of California, San Diego) and Chris Mayer (Columbia Business School) | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 p.m. | Panel Session: Managing the Bust of Credit Cycles: Policy Lessons |
| Chair: Simon Johnson (Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department, IMF) | |
| Panelists: Lewis Alexander (Chief Economist, Citi), Charles Calomiris (Columbia University), Jose De Gregorio (Governor, Central Bank of Chile) | |