OeNB-SUERF-JVI-Yale Program on Financial Stability Conference on Building Resilience and Managing Financial Crises

Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 9:00-17:30 Vienna time (CET)

Hybrid conference (on site at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Otto-Wagner-Platz 3, 1090 Vienna, and online via Webex)

This conference, jointly organized by the OeNB, SUERF, JVI, and the Yale Program on Financial Stability, will take stock of key risks to financial stability and focus on increasing the resilience of the financial system as well as on successful and less successful financial crisis intervention strategies. Topics covered during the conference will include (i) how to bolster financial sector resilience and address vulnerabilities; (ii) how to contain financial stress and bank runs in a world of digital banking and social media; (iii) how to manage trade-offs involved in crisis interventions ; and (iv) how to best address a crisis-related surge in distressed assets. The conference will bring together speakers with extensive experience in policy making, crisis management or policy-oriented research in the respective areas.

Speakers include, in alphabetical order, Tobias Adrian, IMF I Stijn Claessens, Yale University I Andreas Dombret, Oliver Wyman I Maximilian Fandl, JVI I Gottfried Haber, OeNB I Alexandra Habeler-Drabek, Erste Group Bank I Pablo Hernández de Cos, Banco de España I Cornelia Holthausen, ECB I Robert Holzmann, OeNB I Miha Leber, ECB I Andrew Metrick, Yale University I Miguel Otero Fernandez, IMF I Alessandra Perrazzelli, Banca d’Italia I June Rhee, Yale University I Fernando Restoy, BIS I Natasha Sarin, Yale University I Markus Schwaiger, OeNB I Jeremy Stein, Harvard University I Ioannis Tsikripis, Bank of Greece I Boris Vujčić, Hrvatska Narodna Banka I Oliver Wünsch, Oliver Wyman.

Link to Conference Program and Registration

Additional information on the Financial Crisis Management course: The JVI encourages mid-level to senior officials in central banks, regulatory agencies, supervisory authorities, ministries of finance, deposit insurance funds, and other agencies with responsibility for bank supervision, bank resolution, and the operation of financial safety nets to apply for the course “Financial Crisis Management”. The course is presented by the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department in collaboration with the Yale Program on Financial Stability and the JVI in September 2024. The course includes in-person attendance of the conference as an integral part of the course (confirmed participants will be automatically registered for the conference).