84Th International Atlantic Economic Conference

84TH INTERNATIONAL ATLANTIC ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

SPECIAL SESSIONS OF INTEREST:

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FINTECH AND THE NEW FINANCIAL LANDSCAPES

Lachine-Friday 16h45 – 18h45

Organizer: Julapa Jagtiani, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia-U.S.A.

Session: 161

Chair: Julapa Jagtiani, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia—U.S.A.

Alexander Kroeger and Asani Sarkar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York—U.S.A., The law

of one bitcoin price?

Julapa Jagtiani, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia—U.S.A. and Catharine Lemieux,

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago—U.S.A. Fintech lending: Financial inclusion, risk

pricing, and alternative information

Blake Marsh and Jesse Maniff, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City—U.S.A., Banking on

distributed ledger technology: Can DLT help banks address financial inclusion?

Brian Knight, George Mason University—U.S.A., Federalism and federalization on the Fintech

frontier

Discussants: Hanna Halaburda, Bank of Canada—Canada and William Lang, Promontory

Financial Group—U.S.A.

BANK RISK-TAKING AND FINANCIAL STABILITY

Lachine-Saturday 09h00 – 11h00

Organizer: Christine M. Cumming and Joseph P. Hughes, Rutgers University-U.S.A.

Session: 201

Chair: Christine M. Cumming, Rutgers University—U.S.A.

Joseph P. Hughes, Rutgers University—U.S.A., Loretta J. Mester, Federal Reserve Bank of

Philadelphia—U.S.A. and Choon-Geol Moon, Hanyang University—South Korea,

Market discipline for and against financial stability: The two faces of equity capital in

U.S. commercial banking

Rhys M. Bidder, John R. Krainer and Adam H. Shapiro, Federal Reserve Bank of San

Francisco—U.S.A., De-leveraging or de-risking? How banks cope with loss

Colleen Baker, University of Oklahoma—U.S.A., Christine M. Cumming, Rutgers

University— U.S.A. and Julapa Jagtiani, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia—

U.S.A., Market discipline on bank risk-taking: How important are liquidity requirements

relative to capital requirements?

EFFECTIVENESS OF BANK SUPERVISION

Lachine-Saturday 16h45 – 18h45

Organizer: William Lang, Promontory Financial Group-U.S.A.

Organizer: Eugine N. White, Rutgers University-U.S.A.

Session: 261

Chair: William Lang, Promontory Financial Group—U.S.A.

Eugene N White, Rutgers University—U.S.A., Purpose and effectiveness of bank examination

in late 19th and 20th century America

Jeffrey Gunther, Todd Vermilyea and Zhe Zhang, Federal Reserve Board—U.S.A., Use of

supervisory authority to curb risk in banks with commercial real estate lending
concentrations: A case study

Thomas M. Eisenbach and David O. Lucca, Federal Reserve Bank of New York—U.S.A., and

Robert M. Townsend, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—U.S.A., Economics of

bank supervision

Discussants: Christine M. Cumming, Rutgers University—U.S.A. and William Lang,

Promontory Financial Group—U.S.A.