October 18-19, 2024
Wharton Conference on Liquidity and Financial Fragility

2024 Conference Program

Conference presentations will take place in Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall (SHDH) room 351, located at 3620 Locust Walk. The reception and dinner will take place in Huntsman Hall on the 8th floor, located at 3730 Walnut St.

 FRIDAY
OCTOBER 18, 2024

8:30 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30am – 12:00pm Session 1: Depositor Behavior and Bank Runs
Chair: Joao Gomes (University of Pennsylvania)
The Dynamics of Deposit Flightiness and its Impact on Financial Stability
Kristian Blickle (NY Fed), Jian Li (Columbia), Xu Lu (University of Washington), and Yiming Ma (Columbia)
Discussant: Olivier Wang (NYU)
Tracing Bank Runs in Real Time
Marco Cipriani (NY Fed), Thomas Eisenbach (NY Fed), and Anna Kovner (Richmond Fed)
Discussant: Cecilia Parlatore (NYU)
Two Centuries of Systemic Bank Runs
Rustam Jamilov (Oxford), Tobias König (Bonn), Karsten Müller (National University of Singapore), and Farzad Saidi (Bonn)
Discussant: Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago)
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00 – 2:40pm Session 2: Public Debt
Chair: Roc Armenter (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
The Macroeconomics of Liquidity in Financial Intermediation
Davide Porcellacchia (ECB) and Kevin Sheedy (LSE)
Discussant: Xavier Vives (University of Navarra)
Public Debt Bubbles, Liquidity, and Risk: Policy Assessments Based on the Zero-Beta Interest Rate
Narayana Kocherlakota (University of Rochester)
Discussant: Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
2:40 – 3:00pm Break
3:00 – 4:40pm Session 3: Bank Balance Sheets and Liquidity
Chair: Loretta Mester (University of Pennsylvania)
A Theory of Bank Balance Sheets
Saki Bigio (UCLA), Pierre-Olivier Weill (UCLA), and Diego Zuniga (Bank of Canada)
Discussant: Ye Li (University of Washington)
Held-to-Maturity Accounting and Bank Runs
Kaiji Chen (Emory), Yu Yi (Nankai University), and Shengxing Zhang (Carnegie Mellon)
Discussant: Qi Chen (Duke)
5:00 – 6:00pm Reception
6:00 – 8:00pm Dinner – Keynote Speaker: Franklin Allen (Imperial College)

 SATURDAY
OCTOBER 19, 2024

8:00 – 9:00am Breakfast
9:00 – 10:40am Session 4: Corporate Debt
Chair: Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden (University of Mannheim)
Financially Sophisticated Firms
Lira Mota (MIT) and Kerry Siani (MIT)
Discussant: Chester Spatt (Carnegie Mellon)
Corporate Debt, Boom-Busy Cycles, and Financial Crises
Victoria Ivashina (Harvard), Şebnem Kalemli-Ö
zcan (Brown), Luc Laeven (ECB), and Karsten Müller (National University of Singapore)
Discussant: Greg Nini (Drexel)
10:40 – 11:00am Break
11:00am – 12:40pm Session 5: Market Discipline and Regulation
Chair: Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania)
Rules versus Disclosure: Prudential Regulation and Market Discipline
William Fuchs (UT Austin), Satoshi Fukuda (Bocconi), and Daniel Neuhann (UT Austin)
Discussant: Liyan Yang (University of Toronto)
The Economics of Market-Based Deposit Insurance
Edward Kim (Michigan), Shohini Kundu (UCLA), and Amiyatosh Purnanandam (Michigan)
Discussant: Kinda Hachem (UVA)
12:40 – 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 4:00pm Session 6: Emerging Risks and Technologies
Chair: Urban Jermann (University of Pennsylvania)
FinTech Lending, Banking, and Information Portability
Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton) and Jonathan Payne (Princeton)
Discussant: Zhiguo He (Stanford)
The Macroeconomic Implications of the Gen-AI Economy
Pablo Guerron-Quintana (Boston College), Tomoaki Mikami (Boston College), and Jaromir Nosal (Boston College)
Discussant: Winston Dou (University of Pennsylvania)
A Theory of Economic Coercion and Fragmentation
Christopher Clayton (Yale), Matteo Maggiori (Stanford), and Jesse Schreger (Columbia)
Discussant: Alessandro Dovis (University of Pennsylvania)
4:00pm Adjourn


Organizing Committee

  • Vincent Glode (Wharton)
  • Itay Goldstein (Wharton)
  • Guillermo Ordonez (Department of Economics)
  • Yao Zeng (Wharton)