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15th WORKSHOP

Registration Deadline: April 15, 2026

To attend the workshop, please send email to mail@efi-network.com before midnight on the day of the registration deadline. 

The 15th Workshop will take place on Friday April 24, 2026. The workshop is hosted at the National Bank of Belgium in Brussels. It starts at 9:00 and concludes at 17:30, but we invite everyone to stick around for drinks, food and fun after the workshop. There are no registration costs, but we cannot cover travel or accommodation costs for participants. 

PROGRAM

8h30 Registration / Security / Welcome (and coffee)

9h00 Inefficient Debt Relief: Evidence from a Foreign Currency Loan Repayment Program

Ibolya Schindele (Central European University, National Bank of Hungary), with G. Lóránth and Z. Oláh  

Discussant: Fergal McCann (Central Bank of Ireland)

coffee break

10h40 Market-Priced Savings, Bank Deposit Market Power, and Monetary Policy Transmission

Dominic Cucic (Danmarks Nationalbank), with C. Basten and G. Schepens

Discussant: Björn Imbierowicz (Bundesbank)

coffee break

12h10 Scoping Out Borrowers: The Role of Bank Scope in Small Business Lending

Mathias Lé (Banque de France), with P. Beaumont

Discussant: Ragnar Juelsrud (University of Oslo, BI)

13h10 Lunch @ the NBB

Poster 1: Law Enforcement Risk and Credit Provision (Lucas Mariani, Bocconi)

Poster 2: Geopolitics and Monetary Policy (Stefan Greppmair, Bundesbank)

14h30 Invited Talk: Subjective Expectations and Financial Intermediation 

Janet Gao (Georgetown), with F. D'Acunto, L. Liu, K. Lu, Z. Wang, and J. Yang

coffee break

16h00 Originating-to-Pledge: Lending as Collateral Production

Matthieu Chavaz (Bank for International Settlements), with J. Dlugosz

Discussant: Angela Gallo (Bayes Business School)

17h10 Post workshop drinks & bites