Conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Center for Financial Innovation and Stability

Conference Location
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Conference Center, Third Floor
1000 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309

Contact: CenFIS@atl.frb.org


Agenda

Friday, October 30, 2009
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 Welcome remarks
David Altig, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
8:35 "Systemic Risk and the Financial Crisis of 2008" (683 KB) PDF logo
Gerald Dwyer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
9:15 "U.S. Monetary Policy and the Financial Crisis" (449 KB) PDF logo
James Lothian, Fordham University

10:00 Break
10:30 "The International Regulation of Systemic Risk" (762 KB) PDF logo
Professor Lord Eatwell, Queens College, Cambridge University

11:15 "Australia's Resilience During the GFC" (478 KB) PDF logo
Renee Fry, Australian National University
Noon Lunch
1:00 p.m. "The U.S. and Irish Credit Crises: Similarities and Differences" (167 KB) PDF logo
Thomas Flavin, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
1:45 "Financial Stability, Systemic Risk, and Dynamic Provisioning: The Case of Spain" (1.43 MB) PDF logo
Santiago Carbo Valverde, Universidad de Granada
2:30 Break
3:00 "Financial Stability: Contingent Capital as One of the Building Blocks" (97 KB) PDF logo
Larry Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
3:45 "On Systemically Important Institutions and Progressive Systemic Mitigation" (164 KB) PDF logo
James Thomson, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
4:30 Adjournment