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16th WORKSHOP

Registration Deadline: November 15, 2026

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

The 16th Workshop will take place on Friday November 27, 2026. The workshop is hosted at the National Bank of Belgium in Brussels. It starts at 9:00 and concludes around 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 Banking Deregulation and Credit, Revisited

Toni Ahnert (ECB & CEPR), with A. Beck and S. Doerr  

Discussant: Sergio Mayordomo (Banco de España)

coffee break

10h40 Preempting Gas Bans: Policy Retrenchment and Credit Allocation

Francesco Mazzola (ESCP), with Y. Heo and T. Lambert

Discussant: Emilia Garcia-Appendini (University of St Gallen, SFI)

    coffee break

12h10 Asymmetric Information and Capital Regulation in SME Lending: A Structural Model of Bank and Non-Bank Competition

Negar Mohammadi Jazi (LSE), with F. Netto

Discussant: Quirin Fleckenstein (HEC Paris)

13h10 Lunch @ the NBB

Poster 1: Deposits at War: Safe Asset Composition and Banks (Eva Mulder, Erasmus)

Poster 2: Banks, Monetary Policy, lnterest Rate Risk (José Fellmann, KU Leuven)

14h30 Invited Talk:  CBDCs, Payment Firms, and Geopolitics

Tobias Berg (Goethe Universität & CEPR), with J. Keil, F. Martini, and M. Puri

coffee break

16h00 Giving Life to Private (Rated) Credit

Ali Uppal (Imperial College), with I. Gschossmann, Z. Li, and D. Wenning

Discussant: Dominik Damast (Luiss University)

17h10 Post workshop drinks & bites