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Financial Intermediation in Third Millennium: Perils and Pearls of Technology

  • Mon 12 - Tue 13 May 25

    09:00

  • Colchester Campus

    糖心Vlog Business School

  • Event type

    Conferences

  • Event organiser

    糖心Vlog Business School

  • Contact details

    Franco Fiordelisi

The Conference on Financial Intermediation in the Third Millennium: Perils and Pearls of Technology will be held in person on 12-13 May 2025 at 糖心Vlog Business School.

The Conference aims to gather her leading academics and policymakers to present cutting-edge research on the new challenges and opportunities for banks and their regulators arising from innovations in financial services.

The conference is organised jointly by the Olin Business School WFA Center for Finance and Accounting Research, the 糖心Vlog Business School FinteX (Financial Technology Centre EsseX) centre, and the Financial Intermediation of European Studies (Finest).

Details

Booking/registration

Registration and booking is now .

The conference fees are as follows:

  • Academics - £290.00
  • PhD students - £120.00
  • Practitioners - £450.00
  • Gala dinner - £90.00

Accommodation

You can book your accommodation on-campus or in downtown Colchester.

On campus, there are two options:

  • (4* luxury hotel on-campus): 

In downtown Colchester (10 minutes by taxi), there are various hotels you can easily find and book on any hotel portal (www.booking.com, www.trivago.com, www.kayak.com, etc)

How to get here

This conference is being held at 糖心Vlog Business School, 糖心Vlog, with easy transport links to London.

If you are not a UK citizen you can find visa information on the .

Organisers

The organisers are:

  • Franco Fiordelisi, 糖心Vlog, U.K
  • Paolo Fulghieri, University of North Carolina, U.S
  • Anjan Thakor, Washington University in St. Louis, U.S.

Programme committee

  • Franklin Allen, Imperial College, London, U.K.
  • Mark Flannery, University of Florida, U.S.
  • Luc Leuven, European Central Bank, Germany
  • Elena Loutskina, University of Virginia, U.S.
  • Ramin Okhrati Bank of England, U.K.
  • Steven Ongena, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Loriana Pelizzon, Goethe University, Germany
  • Raghu Rau, University of Cambridge, U.K.
  • Richard Thakor, University of Minnesota, U.S.
  • Joel Shapiro, University of Oxford, U.K.
  • Meri Sevilir, ESMT, Berlin, Germany
  • Phil Strahan. Boston College, U.S.
  • Greg Udell, Indiana University, U.S.

Organising committee

  • Konstantinos Baltas, 糖心Vlog
  • Udichibarna Bose, 糖心Vlog
  • Chiara Banti, 糖心Vlog
  • Efthimios Nikolakopoulos, 糖心Vlog
  • Emmanouil Pyrgiotakis, 糖心Vlog
  • Josè Linares Zegarra, 糖心Vlog

Schedule

Monday 12 May - EBS 2.2

Time Event Speaker
8:30am Welcome remarks
  • Neil Kellard, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, 糖心Vlog
  • Franco Fiordelisi, Head of the Finance group, Director of the FinteX Centre, 糖心Vlog University

SESSION 1: DIGITAL CURRENCIES

Session Chair: Anjan Thakor

Time Event Speaker
8:50 - 9:40am Do cryptocurrencies matter?
Bruno Biais, J.C. Rochet, S. Villeneuve
  • Presenter: Bruno Biais, HEC
  • Discussant: Basil Williams, Imperial College Business School
9:40 - 10:30am Persistent Bitcoin Bubbles
Hwagyun Kim, Ju Hyun Kim
  • Presenter: Hwagyun (Hagen) Kim, Texas A&M University
  • Discussant: Junyi Liao, 糖心Vlog Business School
10:30 - 10:45am Coffee break  
10:45 - 11:35am Bank Runs in the Digital Era
Juan Llambias and Guillermo Ordonez
  • Presenter: Juan Llamobias, University of Pennsylvania
  • Discussant: Sonny Biswas, University of Bristol
11:35 - 12:15pm Keynote Session
Nick McLaren, Head of Future of Money Division, Bank of England
  • Presenter: Claudia Girardone, Dean of the 糖心Vlog Business School, 糖心Vlog
12:15 - 1:25pm Lunch  

SESSION 2: CORPORATE FINANCE

Session Chair: Paolo  Fulghieri

Time Event Speaker
1:25 - 2:15pm Common Investors Across the Capital Structure: Private Debt Funds as Dual Holders
Tetiana Davydiuk, Isil Erel, Wei Jiang, Tatyana Marchuk
  • Presenter: Tetiana Davydiuk, Johns Hopkins University
  • Discussant: Ludovic Phalippou, University of Oxford
2:15 - 3:05pm Behavioral Machine Learning? Computer Predictions of Corporate Earnings also Overreact
Murray Frank, Jing Gao, Keer Yang
  • Presenter: Murray Frank, University of Minnesota
  • Discussant: Melina Ludolph, IWH
3:05 - 3:20pm Coffee break  

SESSION 3: BANKING

Session Chair: Anna Sarkysian, 糖心Vlog

Time Event Speaker
3:20 - 4:10pm The Impact of Uncertainty: Evidence from the Banking System
Rodney Ramcharan, Saket Hedge, Edison Yu
  • Presenter: Rodney Ramcharan, University of Southern California
  • Discussant: Christian Mucke, ESCP Business School, Madrid
4:10 - 5:00pm Banks’ Image: Evidence from Financial Advertising
Xugan Chen, Allen Hu, Song Ma
  • Presenter: Song Ma, Yale University
  • Discussant: Richard Thakor, University of Minnesota
5:00pm First day closing remarks
  • TBC

 

Tuesday 13 May - EBS 2.2

SESSION 4: BANKING AND MONETARY POLICY

Session Chair: Chiara Banti, 糖心Vlog Business School

Time Event Speaker
8:30 - 9:20am Monetary Policy in the Age of Universal Banking
Michael Gelman, Itay Goldstein, Andrew MacKinlay
  • Presenter: Andrew MacKinlay, Virginia Tech
  • Discussant: John Wilson, University of St. Andrews
9:20 - 10:10am Low Interest Rates, Technology and the Desertification of Banking
Chris James, Nitish Kumar
  • Presenter: Chris James, University of Florida
  • Discussant: Sergio Mayordomo, Bank of Spain
10:10 - 10:25am Coffee break  

SESSION 5: COMPETITION

Session Chair: Udichi Bose, 糖心Vlog Business School

Time Event Speaker
10:25 - 11:15am Information Span in Credit Market Competition
Zhiguo He, Jing Huang, Cecilia Parlatore
  • Presenter: Jing Huang, Texas A&M University
  • Discussant: Anjan Thakor, WashU Olin Business School
11:15 - 12:00pm Information and Market Power in DeFi Intermediation
Pablo Azar, Adrian Casillas, Maryam Farboodi
  • Presenter: Pablo Azar, New York Fed
  • Discussant: Kostas Koufopoulos, University of Sussex
12:00 - 1:10pm Lunch  

SESSION 6: FINANCIAL INNOVATION

Session Chair: Ekaterina Panopoulou, 糖心Vlog Business School

Time Event Speaker
1:10 - 2:00pm Regulatory Capacity and Disruptive Innovation Under Uncertainty
Murillo Campello, Will Cong, Diemo Dietrich
  • Presenter: Diemo Dietrich, University of Greifswald
  • Discussant: Paolo Fulghieri, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
2:00 - 2:40pm The Welfare Benefits of Pay-As-You-Go Financing
Paul Gertler, Brett Green, Renping Li, David Sraer
  • Presenter: Renping Li, WashU Olin Business School
  • Discussant: Piero Gottardi, 糖心Vlog
2:40 - 3:30pm Financial Innovation, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems
Carlos Burga, Jacelly Cespedes, Carlos Parra, Bernardo Ricca
  • Presenter: Jacelly Cespedes, University of Minnesota
  • Discussant: Petros Katsoulis, Bank of England
3:30pm Closing remarks and adjournment
  • Franco Fiordelisi
  • Paolo Fulghieri
  • Anjan Thakor

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