Past Conferences

	Ifo/CESifo & ACES Conference on Banking and Institutions CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 11 - 12 December 2009 Programme

	Friday, 11 December 2009
	Session 1 Trouble in Russia
09:00 - 09:15	Welcome & Introduction Koen Schoors
09:15 - 10:00	The Outbreak of the Russian Banking Crisis: What a Surprise! JARKO FIDRMUC and Philipp Johann Süß Discussant: Zuzana Fungáčová
10:00 - 10:45	How Market Power Influences Bank Failures: Evidence from Russia Zuzana Fungáčová and LAURENT WEILL Discussant: Roman Horvath
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee Break
	Session 2 Access to Finance in Transition Countries
11:00 - 11:45	Access to versus Use of Loans: What are the True Determinants of Access? Christa Hainz and TATJANA NABOKIN Discussant: Jana P. Fidrmuc
11:45 - 12:30	Informational Sharing and Credit Rationing: Evidence from the Introduction of a Public Credit Registry XIAOQIANG CHENG and Hans Degryse Discussant: Iikka Korhonen
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 3 Market Discipline and Crisis
14:00 - 14:45	The Effect of Deposit Insurance on Market Discipline: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Deposit Flows Alexei Karas, William Pyle and KOEN SCHOORS Discussant: Iftekhar Hasan
14:45 - 15:30	Deposit Market Competition, Wholesale Funding, and Bank Risk Ben R. Craig and VALERIYA DINGER Discussant: Jin Cao
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Session 4 Networks
16:00 -16:45	The Old-Boy Network and the Quality of Entrepreneurs Mehmet Bac and EREN INCI Discussant: Katharina Eck
16:45 - 17:30	Legal Enforcement, Financial Development, and Industry Clusters XIAOQIANG CHENG Discussant: Rainer Haselmann
	Saturday, 12 December 2009
	Session 5 Foreign Bank Entry and Exit
09:15 - 10:00	Margins of international banking: Is there a productivity pecking order in banking, too? Claudia Buch, CATHÉRINE TAHMEE KOCH and Michael Kötter Discussant: Olena Havrylchyk
10:00 - 10:45	Why do foreign banks withdraw from other nations? Aneta Hryckiewics and OSKAR KOWALEWSKI Discussant: John Bonin
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break
	Keynote Lecture
11:15 - 12:30	Finance and Growth: Evidence, Methodology and Channels THORSTEN BECK
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 6 Incentives and Loan Decisions
14:00 - 14:45	Perverse Incentives at the Banks? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Sumit Agarwal and FAYE H. WANG Discussant: Karolin Kirschenmann
14:45 - 15:30	Post-Acquisition Restructuring, HRM Policies and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm HEIN BOGAARD and Jan Svejnar Discussant: Linda Rousova
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Session 7 Macro Effects of Bank Finance
16:00 - 16:45	Investment in Relationship-Specific Assets: Does Finance Matter? Madina Kukenova and MARTIN STRIEBORNY Discussant: Jürgen Jerger
16:45 - 17:30	Consumption Risk Sharing over the Business Cycle: the Role of Small Firms' Access to Credit Markets Mathias Hoffmann and IRYNA STEWEN Discussant: Iikka Korhonen
19:00	Conference Dinner

Ifo/CESifo & ACES Conference on Banking and Institutions

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 11 - 12 December 2009

Programme

Friday, 11 December 2009

Session 1 Trouble in Russia

Session 2 Access to Finance in Transition Countries

Session 3 Market Discipline and Crisis

Session 4 Networks

Saturday, 12 December 2009

Session 5 Foreign Bank Entry and Exit

Keynote Lecture

Session 6 Incentives and Loan Decisions

Session 7 Macro Effects of Bank Finance

Ifo/CESifo & ACES Conference on
Banking and Institutions

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich
11 - 12 December 2009

Session 1
Trouble in Russia

Session 2
Access to Finance in Transition Countries

Session 3
Market Discipline and Crisis

Session 4
Networks

Session 5
Foreign Bank Entry and Exit

Session 6
Incentives and Loan Decisions

Session 7
Macro Effects of Bank Finance