Arrival / registration: 10.45 – 11.20 and coffee.

Welcome Talk: Professor Barbara Casu

Session 1: 11.30-13.00. Chair: Cristina Grande Herrera (Bayes Business School)

Do the SDGs affect sovereign bond spreads? First evidence (Eline ten Bosch, Mathijs van Dijk, Dirk Schoenmaker).

• Presenter: Eline ten Bosch (Erasmus University)
• Discussant: Aneel Keswani (Bayes Business School)

Green versus sustainable loans: The impact on firms’ ESG performance (Ozlem Dursun-de Neef, Steven Ongena, Gergana Tsonkova)

• Presenter: Ozlem Dursun-de Neef (Goethe University)
• Discussant: Moqi Xu (Queen Mary)

Lunch: 13.00 – 14.15

Session 2: 14.15 – 15.45. Chair: Angela Gallo (Bayes Business School)

The origin of crises and systemic risk: Do bank business models matter? (Rym Ayadi, Paola Bongini, Barbara Casu, Doriana Cucinelli)

• Presenter: Doriana Cucinelli (University of Parma)
• Discussant: Ortenca Kume (Kent)

Black box, Greenleaf: Lender behavior under uncertain collateral enforcement (Taha Ahsin)

• Presenter: Taha Ahsin (Duke University)
• Discussant: Angus Foulis (Bank of England)

Break: 15.45 – 16.15

Industry Keynote: 16.15 – 17.15 – Alison Scott (Director, Bank of England). Chair: Barbara Casu (Bayes Business School)

Q&A and Conclusions 17.15-17.30

Dinner: 18.30 at Bread Street Kitchen & Bar – The City. By invitation only

Session 4: 9.30 – 11.00. Chair: Francesc Rodriguez Tous (Bayes Business School)

Does the proximity of cooperative banks facilitate access to credit? (Elena Beccalli, Ludovico Rossi, Andrea Viola)

• Presenter: Andrea Viola (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
• Discussant: Claudia Girardone (Essex University)

Political liquidity creation: Electoral cycles and state-owned banks (Ozlem Akin, S. Mehmet Ozsoy)

• Presenter: Ozlem Akin (Ozyegin University)
• Discussant: John O.S. Wilson (University of St Andrews)

Break: 11.00-11.15

Session 5: 11.15-12.45. Chair: Rym Ayadi (Bayes Business School)

Cyberattacks on small banks and the impact on local banking markets (Fabian Gogolin, Ivan Lim, Francesco Vallascas).

• Presenter: Francesco Vallascas (Durham University)
• Discussant: Thomas Mosk (Queen Mary)

Who pays for your rewards? Cross-subsidization in the credit card market (Sumit Agarwal, Andrea F. Presbitero, Andre F. Silva, Carlo Vix)

• Presenter: Carlo Wix (Federal Reserve Board)
• Discussant: Francesc Rodriguez Tous (Bayes Business School)

Lunch: 12.45-13.45

Session 6: 13.45-15.15 Chair: Francisco Urzua (Bayes Business School)

Directed lending and female entrepreneurs: Micro evidence from Turkey (Halil Ibrahim Aydin, Cagatay Bircan, Ralph de Haas)

• Presenter: Cagatay Bircan (EBRD)
• Discussant: Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe (LSE)

Star charities, director networks and firm performance (Saleem Bahaj, Andrew Blake, Angus Foulis, Andrew G. Haldane, Gabor Pinter, Jagdish Tripathy)

• Presenter: Jagdish Tripathy (Bank of England)
• Discussant: Lakshmi Naaraayanan (LBS)

Break: 15.15 – 15.30

Academic Keynote: 15.30- 16.30 – Marcin Kacperczyk (Professor, Imperial College): Decarbonization. Chair: Vasso Ioannidou (Bayes Business School).

Q&A and Conclusions 16.30-17.00

Drinks