John Hopkins’ Carey Finance 2024 Conference (Oct 17-18,2024)

This week, I had the pleasure of participating in the 2024 Carey Finance Conference, held at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in Baltimore, Maryland. The event spanned two days, October 17-18, and was sponsored by Campbell & Company and T. Rowe Price. The conference provided an excellent platform for academics and practitioners to engage in insightful discussions about the latest research in finance.

The program featured a rich lineup of sessions covering macro-finance, household finance, environmental and social finance, and investor preferences. One of the highlights was the keynote speech by Thomas Philippon from New York University, who shared his thoughts on theoretical aspects of financial crises (including bank runs, bailouts and moral hazard or stress tests). Additionally, the Ph.D. student session offered a glimpse into promising new research, with topics ranging from loan pricing to U.S. monetary policy.

I had the opportunity to serve as a discussant in the "Macro-finance" session, where I discussed the paper "Tracing Bank Runs in Real Time" by Marco Cipriani, Thomas Eisenbach, and Anna Kovner, all affiliated with the Federal Reserve System. As Marco explained in this talk, the paper addresses the advantages in tracking bank runs using real-time data, providing novel insights into the underlying dynamics of financial crises. In a separate blog entry, I will share my detailed thoughts on this paper and its broader implications for policy and financial stability, so stay tuned!

If you like to discuss any of the topics from the conference or connect regarding research in finance, feel free to reach out to me. I am always open to engaging with fellow professionals and exploring new perspectives. Let's continue the conversation!