2013 Conference: A Century of Money, Banking and Financial Instability
November 15-16, 2013, Pittsburgh, PA
Conference Session 1
November 15, 2013
Chair: Marvin Goodfriend- On the Social Usefulness of Fractional Reserve Banking
Authors: V. V. Chari and Christopher Phelan
Discussant: Ed Nosal - Regulatory Capture in Banking and Consequences for Financial Market Regulation: A First Look at the Evidence
Authors: David Lucca, Amit Seru and Francesco Trebbi
Discussant: Ed Kane
Conference Session 2
November 15, 2013
Chair: Thomas Cooley- Testing Macro-prudential Stress Tests: The Risk of Regulatory Risk Weights
Authors: Viral Acharya, Robert Engle and Diane Pierret
Discussant: Deborah Lucas - Predatory Trading and Credit Freeze
Authors: Jennifer La’O
Discussant: Richard Lowery
Conference Session 3
November 16, 2013
Chair: Bennett McCallum- Liquidity Provision, Interest Rates and Unemployment
Authors: Guillaume Rocheteau and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez
Discussant: Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau - Can Moral Hazard Be Avoided? The Banque de France and the Crisis of 1889
Authors: Pierre Cyrille Hautcoeur, Angelo Riva and Eugene N. White
Discussant: Stefano Ugolini