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First Webinar:

Research Project

I received a 1,070,000$ research grant from Fidelity Investments Inc. to study climate finance, as well as financial stability in non-bank financial markets. Non-bank financial markets can be conceptualized as a food web of financial institutions interlinked via their predator-pray relationships, as in a natural ecology. With these funds, we hired four doctoral students at the University of Oxford.

Conference Program

Conference Synopsis

Over the past ten years, financial stress tests have become a crucial regulatory and supervisory tool. Their role and importance have evolved—from evaluating the resilience of an individual financial institution to that of a country’s financial system in its totality—and that calls for both reflection and new thinking. Most critically, that new thinking should benefit from experts coming from various countries and disciplinary backgrounds and reflect the complementary expertise of professionals from central banks, the private sector, and academia. Day 1 will allow for lively discussions on both strengths and limitations of stress testing. The discussions will be structured around the Handbook on Financial Stress Testing, to be published by Cambridge University Press, and edited by Doyne Farmer, Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis, Til Schuermann, and Thom Wetzer. The six sessions roughly correspond to the handbook’s five sections. The day should yield valuable new insights and help foster a community of financial stress testers. Day 2 will bring together representatives from IMF, the World Bank, central banks and agencies attending the Annual Meetings, as well as experts from academia and think tanks. Day 2 focuses on strengthening financial stability: quo vadis?