Research & Conferences Preliminary conference programme Thursday, 10 June 2010
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Registration
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Opening remarks by Eugeniusz Gatnar - Member of the NBP Management Board
| 9:45 – 10:45 | Equity Market Integration - keynote speech by Geert Bekaert (Columbia University)
| 10:45 – 12:00 | Session 1. Monetary policy and financial stability
Chairman: Ryszard Kokoszczyński, National Bank of Poland
Benjamin Born (Bonn University), Michael Ehrmann (European Central Bank), Marcel Fratzscher (European Central Bank) Fabio Castiglionesi (Tilburg University), Fabio Feriozzi (Tilburg University), Guido Lorenzoni (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Session 2. Systemic risks in the banking sector
Chairman: Bernd Kempa, Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster
Giovanni Calice (University of Southampton), Christos Ioannidis (University of Bath), Julian Williams (University of Aberdeen) Gabriela Mundaca (Johns Hopkins University) | 14:15 – 14:45 | Coffee break
| 14:45 – 16:00 | Session 3. Credit frictions in monetary models
Chairman: Jacek Kotłowski, National Bank of Poland
Chiara Forlati (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Luisa Lambertini (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Michał Brzoza-Brzezina (National Bank of Poland), Marcin Kolasa (National Bank of Poland), Krzysztof Makarski (National Bank of Poland) | Friday, 11 June 2010
| 9:00 – 9:20 | Financial Integration and Stability: Efficiency Gains vs. Contagion Risks - keynote address by Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell - Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank
| 9:20 – 10:35 | Session 4. The role of financial integration
Chairman: Pierre Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University
Simone Manganelli (European Central Bank), Alexander Popov (European Central Bank) Séverine Menguy (Université de Paris X-Nanterre) | 10:35 – 11:00 | Coffee break
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Session 5. Special session for Ph.D. students
Chairman: Martin Bohl, Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster
Christian Bredemeier (Technische Universität Dortmund) & Henry Sabrowski (Technische Universität Dortmund) Judith Lischewski (Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster), Svitlana Voronkova (Centre for European Economic Research) | 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Session 6. Limits to financial development and integration
Chairman: Eugeniusz Gatnar, Member of the NBP Management Board
Oscar Becerra (Inter-American Development Bank), Eduardo Cavallo (Inter-American Development Bank), Carlos Scartascini (Inter-American Development Bank) Andreas Steiner (University of Osnabrück) | 14:15 – 14:30 | Closing remarks by Eugeniusz Gatnar - Member of the NBP Management Board | 15:00 | Transport to the airport | |