Agenda

MAY 13th

7:30am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30am

Introductory Remarks
Roger Stein, Managing Director, Moody’s Investors Service
Matthew Richardson, Director, Salomon Center, NYU Stern School of Business

8:45am

Panel

How the Financial Crisis Has Affected the Credit Markets

Edward Altman, NYU Stern School of Business
Til Schuermann, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Richard Cantor, Chief Risk Officer, Moody’s Investors Service

Moderator: Suresh Sundaresan, Columbia Business School

9:45am

Crisis I: Financial Markets

Securitized Banking and the Run on Repo

Presenter: Gary Gorton, Yale School of Management
Discussant: Kent Daniel, Columbia Business School


CDX Tranche Pricing Using S&P Equity Data

Presenter: Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Columbia Business School
Discussant: Jakub Jurek, Princeton University

10:45am

Coffee

11:00am

Crisis II: Bank Lending

The Supply-Side Determinants of Loan Contract Strictness

Presenter: Justin Murfin, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Discussant: Mitchell Petersen, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University


Liquidity Management in the Financial Crisis

Presenter:  Victoria Ivashina, Harvard Business School
Discussant: Daniel Paravisini, Columbia Business School

Aggregate Risk and the Choice between Cash and Lines of Credit

Presenter: Viral Acharya, NYU Stern School of Business
Discussant: Hui Chen, MIT Sloan School of Management


12:30pm

Lunch & Keynote

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago's Booth School of Business

2:00pm

Securitization

Liar's Loans? Effects of Origination Channel and Information Falsification
on Mortgage Delinquency
Presenter: Wei Jiang, Columbia Business School
Discussant: Amit Seru, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

3:00pm

Keynote

Model Risk
Presenter: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management

3:40pm

Coffee

4:00pm

Panel

Contingent Capital
Mark Flannery, University of Florida, Warrington College of Business Administration
George Pennacchi, University of Illinois College of Business

5:15pm Cocktail Reception
 
 
 
 

MAY 14th

7:30am Continental Breakfast

8:30am

Keynote

Global Macro Economic Trends
Presenter: Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody's Analytics

9:00am

Crisis III: Liquidity and Dislocations

Liquidity in a Crisis
Presenter: Kenneth Singleton, Graduate School of Business Stanford University

Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price
Presenter: Lasse Pedersen, NYU Stern School of Business
Discussant: Alan White, Joseph Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

10:15am

Coffee

10:30 am

Panel

Solutions to Derivatives Counterparty Risk
John Hull, Joseph Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Dan Rosen, The Fields Institute and R2 Financial Technologies
Presenter: Francis Longstaff, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Moderator: Stephen Figlewski, NYU Stern School of Business

11:45am

Closing Remarks

   
   
   
   

Viral Acharya, New York University Stern School of Business
Edward Altman, New York University Stern School of Business
Richard Cantor, Chief Risk Officer, Moody’s Investors Service
Stephen Figlewski, New York University Stern School of Business
John Hull, Global Financial Studies, Inc. and Joseph Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
Mitchell A. Petersen, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Matthew Richardson, New York University Stern School of Business
Stephen Schaefer, London Business School
Kenneth Singleton, Stanford University
Roger Stein, Managing Director, Moody's Investors Service
Rangarajan K. Sundaram, New York University Stern School of Business
Alan White, Global Financial Studies, Inc. and Joseph Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto