The Hoover Institution and the European Central Bank cohost the European Central Bank Annual Research Conference on “The Next Financial Crisis?” on September 17-182025

The tenth European Central Bank Annual Research Conference is organized jointly with Stanford’s Hoover Institution and brings together policymakers and academics to discuss how current regulations, supervisory practices, (conventional and unconventional) monetary policy, and technological innovations shape financial fragility.

This conference is by invitation only.

Wednesday, 17 September 2025
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9:30 AM

Welcome

Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank

9:45 AM

Keynote lecture ‒ The Next Financial Crisis?

Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Chair: Luc Laeven, Director General Research, European Central Bank

10:45 AM

Coffee Break

 

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Session 1: Non-banks

Chair: Amit Seru, Hoover Institution & Graduate School of Business - Stanford University

11:30 AM

Where Do Banks End and NBFIs Begin?

Viral V. Acharya*, New York University,

Nicola Cetorelli, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and

Bruce Tuckman, New York University - Stern School of Business

Discussants: Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia Business School and

David Scharfstein, Harvard Business School

12:30 PM

Lunch

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2:00 PM

Do Non-Banks Need Access to the Lender of Last Resort? Evidence from Fund Runs

Johannes Breckenfelder, European Central Bank and

Marie Hoerova*, European Central Bank

Discussants: Jean-Charles Rochet, Toulouse School of Economic and

Philipp Schnabl, New York University Stern School of Business

3:00 PM

Coffee Break

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Session 2: Banks

Chair: Ross Levine, Hoover Institution

3:30 PM

Bank Runs and Interest Rates 

Falk Brauning, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and

Victoria Ivashina*, Harvard University

Discussants: Emil Verner, MIT Sloan School of Management and

José Manuel Campa, Chairperson of the European Banking Authority

4:30 PM

Interest Rate Risk and Cross-Section Effects of Micro-Prudential Regulation

Juliane Begenau*, Graduate School of Business - Stanford University,

Vadim Elenev, Johns Hopkins University and

Tim Landvoigt, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Discussants: Augustin Landier, HEC and

Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University

5:30 PM

End of day one

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Thursday, 18 September 2025
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Session 3: Central banks and regulation 

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9:00 AM

Unintended Consequences of QE: Real Estate Prices and Financial Stability

Tobias Berg*, Goethe University Frankfurt,

Rainer Haselmann, Goethe University Frankfurt,

Thomas Kick, Deutsche Bundesbank, and

Sebastian Schreiber, Goethe University Frankfurt

Discussants: Amir Sufi, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and

José-Luis Peydró, LUISS and EIEF

10:00 AM

Noisy Experts? Discretion in Regulation

Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore,

Bernardo C. Morais, Federal Reserve Board of Governors,

Amit Seru, Stanford University - Hoover Institution, and

Kelly Shue*, Yale University

Discussants: Rafael Repullo, CEMFI and

Claudia Buch, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB

11:00 AM

Coffee Break

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11:45 PM

Policy panel “Monetary policy and financial stability”

Chair: Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Panellists: Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, International Monetary Fund and

Klaas Knot, formerly President, De Nederlandsche Bank and Financial Stability Board

12:45 PM

Farewell

Amit Seru, Stanford University - Hoover Institution

1:00 PM

End of conference

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* An asterisk indicates the presenting author.

If you have any questions about the event, contact Hoover Prosperity Program, HooverProsperity@stanford.edu.

 

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