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8th BIS Annual Conference

25–26 June 2009 | Basel, Switzerland

About the conference

The 8th BIS Annual Conference focused on "Financial System and Macroeconomic Resilience: revisited". The conference proceedings were published in the BIS Papers No 53 in September 2010.

Conference materials

Stephen Cecchetti, Bank for International Settlements | remarks

Chair

Muhammad Al-Jasser, Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency

Speaker

Darrell Duffie, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | presentation

Paper

The Failure Mechanics of Dealer Banks

Discussants

  • Martin Hellwig, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
  • Philipp Hildebrand, Swiss National Bank | presentation

Chair

Miguel Fernández Ordóñez, Bank of Spain

Speaker

Robert Verrecchia, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | presentation

Paper

Accounting Alchemy

Discussants

  • Mary Barth, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | presentation
  • Jean-Pierre Landau, Banque de France | presentation

Chair

Stanley Fischer, Bank of Israel

Speaker

Jean Tirole, Institut d'Economie Industrielle | presentation

Paper

Illiquidity and All Its Friends

Discussants

Franklin Allen, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | presentation

Chair

Lucas Papademos, European Central Bank

Speaker

Hyun Song Shin, Princeton University | presentation

Paper

Financial Intermediation and the Post-Crisis Financial System

Discussants

  • Donald Kohn, Federal Reserve Board
  • José Viñals, International Monetary Fund | presentation

Chair

Guillermo Ortiz, Bank of Mexico

Speaker

Raghuram Rajan, Graduate School of Business, Universtiy of Chicago | presentation

Paper

Discussants

  • Bengt Holmstrom, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | presentation
  • Jacob A Frenkel, Group of Thirty (G30)

Chair

Jaime Caruana, Bank for International Settlements

Panellists

  • William Dudley, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Masaaki Shirakawa, Bank of Japan
  • Nout Wellink, De Nederlandsche Bank | remarks

Chair

Duvvuri Subbarao, Reserve Bank of India

Speaker

John Muellbauer, Nuffield College, Oxford University | presentation

Paper

Household Decisions, Credit Markets and the Macroeconomy: Implications for the Design of Central Bank Models 

Discussants

Alan Bollard, Reserve Bank of New Zealand