Hans Degryse
Professor of Finance at the KU Leuven and a CEPR research fellow
Keynote Speakers
Hans Degryse is Professor of Finance at the Department of Accountancy, Finance and Insurance of the KU Leuven. He is a research fellow at the CEPR, CESIfo, the European Banking Center (EBC), SUERF, and TILEC. Before joining Leuven in 2012, he was professor of finance at Tilburg University. His research focuses on financial intermediation, including empirical banking as well as theoretical and empirical market microstructure.
He has published in many journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and it has been presented in leading international conferences such as the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the European Finance Association, and the Financial Intermediation Research Society. He co-authored, with Moshe Kim and Steven Ongena, the graduate textbook Microeconometrics of Banking: Methods, Applications and Results published by Oxford University Press.
Christine Parlour
Professor at Berkeley Haas. Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting
Christine A. Parlour is the Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting at Berkeley Haas. Most of her work is in institutionally complex areas, such as market microstructure and banking. Her current work focuses on changes in the payments system and the effects on bank balance sheets. She has written for major finance and economics journals. She has been on the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board and is currently on the steering committee for the New Special Study of Securities Markets.