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Risk Management and Regulation of Banks Instructor: Hans Degryse The objective of the course is to develop a sound understanding of the complexities related to the design and conduct of regulation and risk management of banks in light of academic research and actual implementation experiences. The topics to be covered include: managing risks in the banking firm; individual bank runs and systemic risk; financial contagion; costs and benefits of banking regulation; information sharing between banks; lessons from past financial crises. The course will deal with both theory and empirical methods and applications. Students are therefore expected to be interested in theory and empirics. Selected Topics: • Managing risks in the banking firm • Financial stability • Information sharing • Subprime crisis • Impact of banking regulation Hans Degryse is Professor of Financial Intermediation and Markets at CentER-Tilburg University and a CESIfo fellow. He also holds the TILEC-AFM chair on Financial Market Regulation and is a board member of the European Banking CentER in Tilburg. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Leuven in 1995. He has published in many journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Economic Journal, Review of Finance, European Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, and other journals. For more information, please see Hans Degryse. |