Invitation to talk: Financial Crises: Lessons Learned and Financial Reform by René M. Stulz

The Financial Mathematics and Computation Research Cluster (FMC2) are pleased to invite you to attend the following topical talk by René Stulz, a member of our Scientific Advisory Board.

Financial Crises: Lessons Learned and Financial Reform
René M. Stulz, Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics, The Ohio State University
http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/faculty/stulz/

Date: Monday 17 November 2014
Venue: Institute of Banking, 1 North Wall Quay, Dublin1 (inside the Citi Building)
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Refreshments will be served from 5:30pm.

This event is free but for catering purposes please register using this link
or email irene.ward@ucd.ie

René M. Stulz Bio:

René M. Stulz is the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics and the Director of the Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics at The Ohio State University. He has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Chicago, and the University of Rochester.

René M. Stulz was the editor of the Journal of Finance, the leading academic publication in the field of finance, for twelve years. He is on the editorial board of more than ten academic and practitioner journals. He has published more than sixty papers in finance and economics journals. He is the author of a textbook titled Risk Management and Derivatives, a co-author of the Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System, and has edited several books.

About FMC2:

The Financial Mathematics Computation Cluster (FMC2) is a collaboration between Industry, University College Dublin, Dublin City University, and NUI Maynooth. FMC2 is a Science Foundation Ireland funded Strategic Research Cluster (SRC). The cluster brings together complementary expertise in financial mathematics, financial economics and computer science to create a multi-disciplinary research programme in asset and risk management, areas that are of critical importance to the present and future development of the international financial services sector in Ireland. For further details see http://www.fmc-cluster.org/

Euro Area Banking Supervision: Day One

Today is a red-letter day in the development of the euro area, with the ECB taking over responsibility for euro area banking supervision.  The new banking supervision website is here.

Potential output from a euro-area perspective

This ECB working paper is worth going through. The potential output calculation is very important for policy makers, because deviations from the economy’s potential output tend to form a large part of the evaluation of macroeconomic performance used by the European Commission and others. Two recent Central Bank working papers discuss the impact on the Irish economy of these measure. See here and here. The estimates have been, shall we say, fairly far off the mark. The chart below shows this. Understanding the potential output calculation is therefore really important when we talk about policy responses to changes in fiscal policy, especially at the EU level.

 

NYTimes Op-Ed on Mortgage Limits in the USA

There is an interesting New York Times Op-Ed article relevant to the proposed Irish Central Bank LTV and LTI caps on residential mortgages. US financial regulators attempted to impose very similar caps, but the caps have now been diluted/dropped in response to political pressure.

The article is behind the NYTimes paywall, but a number of articles can be read per month without paying a subscription. A key quote:

“low underwriting standards — especially low down payments — drive housing prices up, making them less affordable for low- and moderate-income buyers, while also inducing would-be homeowners to take more risk.”

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