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Workshop on Bank Capital

A workshop jointly sponsored by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
and
NYU Stern School of Business

Organizers:
Matthew Richardson, NYU Stern
Hamid Mehran, FRBNY
Viral Acharya, NYU Stern

 

Date:
Friday, November 1, 2013

Location:
NYU Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012

Attendance by invitation only.  
For more information, contact Salomon Center (salomon@stern.nyu.edu)

 
8:00    Registration and Continental Breakfast


8:25    Welcome Remarks


    Session I: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
8:30    "Banks as Secret Keepers"
Tri Vi Dang, Columbia University
Gary Gorton, Yale University
Bengt Holmstrom, MIT
Guillermo Ordonez, University of Pennsylvania


9:10    "Deposits and Bank Capital Structure"
Franklin Allen, University of Pennsylvania
Elena Carletti, Bocconi University


9:50    Refreshment Break


10:15    "High Bank Leverage, Risk Management, and Liquid-Claim Production"
Harry DeAngelo, University of Southern California
Rene Stulz, Ohio State University


10:55    "Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly"
Malcolm Baker, Harvard University
Jeffrey Wurgler, NYU Stern


    Session II: Systemic Risk and Bank Capital
11:35    "Caught between Scylla and Charybdis? Regulating bank leverage when there is rent-seeking and risk-shifting"
Viral Acharya, NYU Stern
Hamid Mehran, FRBNY
Anjan Thakor, Washington University at St. Louis


12:15    Lunch
Keynote speaker: Robert Engle, NYU Stern
"Bank Capital and Systemic Risk Measurement"


    Session III: Understanding and Assessing Regulatory Stress Tests
2:00    "Overview of the CCAR and Supervisory Stress Testing"
Beverly Hirtle, FRBNY


2:40    "Testing Macroprudential Stress Tests: The risk of regulatory risk weights"
Viral Acharya, NYU Stern
Robert Engle, NYU Stern
Diane Pierret, NYU Stern


3:20    Refreshment Break


    Session IV: Practitioners' View on Bank Capital
3:45    Moderator: Mark Flannery, University of Florida
Panelists:
Rodgin Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell
Wilson Ervin, Credit-suisse
Brian Peters, AIG
Bernard De Longevialle, Standard & Poor's
Douglas Simons, Credit-suisse
Til Schuermann, Oliver Wyman


5:30    Cocktail Reception