Cornell/Penn State Conference on Financial Fragility
Co-Directors: Karl Shell (Cornell)
Neil Wallace
(Penn State)
Supported by the following at Cornell: The Center for Analytic Economics,
the Department of Economics,
the Institute for the Advancement of Economics, the Thorne Research Fund,
and the Journal of Economic Theory.
September 26-27, 2009
at Cornell University
SATURDAY, September 26
Fleming Lecture Room - 226 Weill Hall.
8:00 - 8:45Continental Breakfast 8:45 - 8:50Provost Kent Fuchs, Welcome 8:50 - 9:00Karl Shell (Cornell), Introduction to Financial Fragility Saturday morning chair: Jim Peck (Ohio State University) 9:00 - 9:50John Geanakoplos (Yale University) "Leverage Cycles and the Anxious Economy" (joint w/Ana Fostel) 9:50 - 10:40Todd Keister (NY Fed) "Bailouts and Bank Runs" 10:40 - 11:00Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:50Ed Nosal (Chicago Fed) "Optimal Information Revelation in the Diamond-Dybvig Model: A Comment on Some Recent Literature" (joint w/Neil Wallace 11:50 - 1:10Lunch Saturday afternoon chair: Todd Keister (NY Fed) 1:10 - 2:00Phil Dybvig (Washington University, St. Louis) "International Causes and Implications of the Crisis" (there will be no paper) 2:00 - 2:50Koralai Kirabaeva (Bank of Canada) "The Role of Adverse Selection and Liquidity in Financial Crises" 2:50 - 3:05Coffee Break 3:05 - 3:55Julio Rotemberg (Harvard University) "Liquidity Needs in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations" 3:55 - 4:45Marie Hoerova (ECB) "Liquidity, Hoarding and Interbank Market Spreads" (joint w/Florian Heider & Cornelia Holthausen) 7:00Dinner at Ramin Parlor Room, Sage Hall (Only for out-of-town participants and specifically invited Cornellians.)
SUNDAY, September 27
Fleming Lecture Room - 226 Weill Hall
8:00 - 9:00Continental Breakfast Sunday morning chair: Marie Hoerova (ECB) 9:00 - 9:50Chao Gu (Missouri) "Production, Hidden Actions, and the Payment System" (joint w/Mark Guzman & Joseph Haslag) 9:50 - 10:40Randy Wright (University of Wisconsin) "Information, Liquidity, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy" (joint w/Benjamin Lester & Andrew Postlewaite) 10:40 - 10:55Coffee Break 10:55 - 11:45Douglas Gale (NYU) "Rollover Risk and Market Freezes" (joint w/Viral Acharya & Tanju Yorulmazer) 11:45 - 12:35Adam Slawski (Penn State) "Heterogeneous Beliefs, Learning, and Speculative Trade in Hidden Markov Environment with Short Sale Constraints" 12:35 - 2:0Box Lunch
Conference Administrators:
Amy Moesch (weekdays
only): alg5@cornell.edu; 607-255-5617
Max Mihm: 607-339-6037
Yu Zhang: 607-220-4025
Judit Temesvary: 607-592-5875
Koralai Kirabaeva: 607-280-1759