Endowed Chair of the Economics of Financial Institutions

Prof. Dr. Fecht

 

Welcome to the Chair of the Economics of Financial Institutions

The research areas of the chair cover a wide range of topics including financial stability, microeconomics of banking and open market operations. You can find detailed information regarding our research areas here.

 

News

Deutsche Bundesbank appoints Falko Fecht Research Professor

Prof Dr Falko Fecht, holder of the Endowed Chair of Economics of Financial Institutions at EBS, has been appointed Research Professor at the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Together with his fellow research professors Prof J Breitung (University of Bonn), Prof S. Gerlach (University of Frankfurt), Prof J. Gramming (University of Tübingen), Prof T. Laubach (University of Frankfurt), Prof M. J.M. Neumann (University of Bonn) and Prof H. Uhlig (University of Chicago) he will be involved in designing the Bundesbank's research programme.

His work will include assisting researchers in the research centre in planning and conducting their projects and implementing research projects in cooperation with the Bundesbank.

 

Call for Papers - Conference on Liquidity and Liquidity Risks

This conference is a joint conference by the Deutsche Bundesbank, the European Banking Center, and the European Business School.

A keynote speech will be delivered by Axel Weber (Deutsche Bundesbank). Researchers from universities, private sector institutions, supervisory authorities and central banks are encouraged to submit empirical and theoretical research papers.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• What are the different sources of (il)liquidity, and how are they related?
• How can liquidity risk be measured?
• The risks arising from liquidity spirals, and how to contain them.
• The consequences of aggregate liquidity shortages for bank liquidity management       
• Opacity (and illiquidity) of securitization products          
• The ability for banks to generate liquidity using financial innovations (such as securitizations), both in normal time and in times of crises
• The efficient provision of liquidity by central banks in crises periods.
• The regulation of liquidity risks.

The conference will be held in Frankfurt (Germany), 23/24 September, 2010