3rd Emerging Scholars in Banking and Finance Conference

Tuesday 11th of December 2012 Time Item Presenter Discussant Chair 12.30 – 13.00 Registration & Sandwiches/Tea/Coffee 13.00 – 13.10 Welcome and Introduction Barbara Casu Barbara Casu (Cass Business School) (Cass Business School) 13.10-13.30 The European Journal of Finance Chris Adcock (University of Sheffield) Barbara Casu Session I (Cass Business School) 13.30 – 14.15 Capital and profitability in banking: Evidence from US banks Matthew Osborne Phil Molyneux (UK Financial Services Authority) (Bangor Business School) 14.15 – 15.00 The optimal size of the European Stability Mechanism: A cost- Daniel Kapp Alistair Milne benefit analysis (Paris School of Economics) (Loughborough University) 15.00 – 15.30 Tea/Coffee Phil Molyneux Session II (Bangor Business School) 15.30 - 16.15 Bank Competition, Fire-sale and Financial Stability Ka Kei Chan Manthos Delis (Cass Business School) (University of Surrey) 16.15 – 17.00 Risk Based Pricing in the Credit Card Industry: Evidence from José Liñares-Zegarra Elena Beccalli US Survey Data (St Andrews University) (Catholic University of Milan) 17.00 – 17.45 Foreigners vs. Natives: Bank Lending Technologies and Loan Larissa Schäfer Alessandra Ferrari Pricing (Tilburg University) (University of Reading) John O.S. Wilson Keynote Session (St Andrews University) 17.45 – 18.30 Drink reception 18.30 – 19.35 Welcome and Introduction Steve Haberman (Dean, Cass Business School) 18.35 – 19.30 The Roles of Corporate Governance in Bank Failures during Allen N. Berger the Recent Financial Crisis (Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina)

Wednesday 12th of December 2012 Time Item Presenter Discussant Chair Session III 9.00 - 9.45 Cross-country differences in personality and the foreign bias in Pawel Niszczota Andrew Vivian Philip Hamill international equity portfolios (Poznan University of Economics) (Loughborough University) (The Institute of Bankers in Ireland) 9.45 - 10.30 Investor Attention and FX Market Volatility Arben Kita Evgenia Passari (Bangor Business School) (London Business School) 10.30 - 11.15 Transaction taxes in a price maker/taker market Nordia Thomas tbc (University of Wisconsin - La Crosse) 11.15 - 11.45 Tea/Coffee Daniela Fabbri Session IV (Cass Business School) 11.45 - 12.30 The Absorption of Talent into Finance: Evidence from U.S. Christiane Kneer Francesca Arnaboldi Branching Deregulation (Tilburg University) (University of Milan) 12.30 -13.15 How bank business models drive interest margins: Evidence Saskia van Ewijk Claudia Girardone from U.S. bank-level data (Nyenrode Business Universiteit) (University of Essex) 13.15 - 13.30 Closing Remarks and Best Paper Prize Daniela Fabbri (Cass Business School) 13.30 - 14.00 Sandwiches/Tea/Coffee