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Workshop on Applied Banking Research "Banking and Financial Stability" - 2005

20–21 April 2005 | Vienna, Austria

About the workshop

A research workshop for economists at central banks and supervisory authorities was held in Vienna, Austria on 20-21 April 2005. The workshop - Banking and Financial Stability: A Workshop on Applied Banking Research - was organised by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and was sponsored by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank.

The workshops are held on a biennial basis to facilitate contacts among researchers of different institutions and to stimulate both theoretical and empirical research that assist bank supervision and regulation.

 

  • Martin Birn (Basel Committee Secretariat)
  • Antonella Foglia (Banca d'Italia)
  • Myron Kwast (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
  • Martin Summer (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)
  • Kostas Tsatsaronis (Bank for International Settlements)
  • Bent Vale (Norges Bank)

Programme

Opening Remarks by Univ.-Doz. Dr Josef Christl (Executive Director Economics and Financial Markets, Oesterreichische Nationalbank)

Chair: Bent Vale (Norges Bank)

Liquidity, Banking Regulation and the Macroeconomy

Oriol Aspachs (London School of Economics)
Erlend Nier (Bank of England)
Muriel Tiesset (Commission bancaire)

Discussion by Philipp Hartmann (European Central Bank)

Market-to-book, Charter Value, and Bank Risk-Taking - A Recent Perspective

Frederick Furlong (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Simon Kwan (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

Discussion by Stéphanie Stolz (Deutsche Bundesbank and Kiel Institute for World Economics)

Credit cycles, credit risk, and prudential regulation

Gabriel Jiménez (Banco de España)
Jesús Saurina (Banco de España)

Discussion by Iman van Lelyveld (De Nederlandsche Bank)

Speech by Andreas Ittner (Director of Financial Institutions and Markets Section, Oesterreichische Nationalbank)

Chair: Myron Kwast (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

An Empirical Evaluation of Structural Credit Risk Models

Nikola Tarashev (Bank for International Settlements)

Discussion by Ricardo Schechtman (Central Bank of Brazil)

Measuring Systematic Risk in Recoveries on Defaulted Debt: Firm-Level Ultimate LGDs

Mark Carey (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
Michael Gordy (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

Discussion by Klaus Dúllmann (Deutsche Bundesbank)

Towards an Integrated Measurement of Credit Risk and Market Risk

Thomas Breuer (FH Vorarlberg)
Martin Jandacka (FH Vorarlberg)
Gerald Krenn (Austrian National Bank)

Discussion by Dirk Tasche (Deutsche Bundesbank)

Chair: Urs Birchler (Swiss National Bank)

Do "too big to fail" expectations boost large bank issuer ratings?

Bertrand Rime (Swiss National Bank)

Discussion by João Santos (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Bank Risk and Revenue Diversification: An Assessment of Using Equity Returns

Kevin J Stiroh (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Discussion by Nancy Sofie Masschelein (National Bank of Belgium)

The Depositor behind the Discipline: A Micro-level Case Study of Hamilton Bank

Andrew M Davenport (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
Kathleen McDill (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

Discussion by Mark Levonian (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)

Chair: Kostas Tsatsaronis (Bank for International Settlements)

Stress Testing Housing Loan Portfolios: A Regulatory Case Study 

Anthony Coleman (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority)
Neil Esho (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority)
Ilanko Sellathurai (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority)
Niruba Thavabalan (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority)

Discussion by Tor Jacobson (Sveriges Riksbank)

A Market Based Macro Stress Test for the Corporate Exposure of UK Banks

Mathias Drehmann (Bank of England)

Discussion by Kimmo Virolainen (Bank of Finland)

Bank Risks, Risk Preferences and Lending 

Tomasz Chmielewski (National Bank of Poland)

Discussion by Kjersti-Gro Lindquist (Norges Bank)

Closing remarks by Myron Kwast (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Co-Chairman of the Research Task Force)