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6th BIS Annual Conference

18–19 June 2007 | Brunnen, Switzerland

About the conference

The 6th BIS Annual Conference focused on "Financial System and Macroeconomic Resilience". The conference proceedings were published in the BIS Paper No 41 in July 2008.

Conference materials

William White (Bank for International Settlements) | remarks

Chair

Yaga Reddy, Reserve Bank of India 

Speakers

Martin Hellwig, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Paper

Financial intermediaries and financial markets

Discussants

  • Bengt Holmström, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Martin Redrado, Central Bank of Argentina | opening address

Chair

Yaga Reddy, Reserve Bank of India 

Speakers

Darrell Duffie, Stanford University | presentation

Paper

Innovations in credit risk transfer: implications for financial stability

Discussants

Chair

Alan Bollard, Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Speakers

  • Hyun Shin, Princeton University | presentation
  • Tobias Adrian, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Paper

Liquidity and financial cycles

Discussants

Chair

Alan Bollard, Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Panellists

  • Donald Kohn, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • Arminio Fraga, Gávea Investimentos
  • John Gieve, Bank of England | presentation, remarks

Chair

Kazumasa Iwata, Bank of Japan

Speakers

Paper

Risk management for households - the democratization of finance

Discussants

  • John Campbell, Harvard University | presentation
  • Jaime Caruana, International Monetary Fund

Chair

Kazumasa Iwata, Bank of Japan

Speakers

  • Franklin Allen, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | presentation
  • Elena Carletti, Center for Financial Studies

Paper

Financial system: shock absorber or amplifier

Discussants

  • Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago | presentation
  • Yung Chul Park, Seoul National University

Chair

Malcolm Knight (Bank for International Settlements)

Panellists

  • Yi Gang (People's Bank of China)
  • Stanley Fischer (Bank of Israel)
  • Lucas Papademos (European Central Bank)