4th International Workshop of the School of Finance "Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector"

On November 26, the School of Finance held the 4^th International Workshop "Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector", organized by professors Alexander Karminsky, Irina Ivashkovskaya and Mikhail Stolbov. Professor Sergey Pekarski, the Dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, started the meeting with the opening remarks.

The "Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector" workshop brought together researchers and practitioners, working on the issues related to financial stability of the capital market and the banking system. Researchers from European and top Russian universities as well as the representatives of the regulator, Central Bank of Russia, presented and discussed their papers and acted as moderators. 

The workshop participants discussed the following topics:

-  systemic risk measurement;

- interconnectedness of financial institutions;

- macroprudential policy toolkit and its efficiency;

- interaction between macroprudential and monetary policies;

- credit cycles and bubbles;

- COVID-19 impact on systemic risks.

The key speaker of the workshop Sylvain Benoit – associate professor from Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University, presented his report "Systemic Risk: An Overview". Among other speakers, there were professors from leading universities in Austria, Germany and Italy, as well as from leading Russian universities: MSU, MGIMO, NRU HSE, TSU, UTMN, RANEPA and FU.

All the workshop participants will be able to publish their papers in a series of monographs “Advanced Studies in Emerging Markets Finance” for Springer.