Welcome: Monica Billio (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA)
Opening Remarks: Loriana Pelizzon (Research Center SAFE at Goethe University Frankfurt, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA, Programme Chair)

• Key-note talk: Lending Markets in Transition: Platforms, Borrowers & Investors, Adair Morse (Berkeley University of California)

• Payment Instruments, Enforceability and Development: Evidence from Mobile Money Technology
  Thorsten Beck (City University London & CEPR), Haki Pamuk (Tilburg University & Wageningen University), Ravindra Ramrattan (FSD Kenya & Tilburg University) and Burak R. Uras (Tilburg University & European Banking Center)
  Discussant: Dale Gray (International Monetary Fund)

• How Does P2P Lending Fit Into the Consumer Credit Market?
  Calebe de Roure (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Loriana Pelizzon (Research Center SAFE at Goethe University Frankfurt, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA), Paolo Tasca (University College London, Centre for Blockchain Technologies) and Anjan Thakor (Washington University)
  Discussant: Bruno Parigi (University of Padova)

• “Keeping It Personal” or “Getting Real”? On the Drivers and Effectiveness of Personal versus Real Loan Guarantees
  Sergio Mayordomo (Bank of Spain), Antonio Moreno (University of Navarra), Steven Ongena (University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute, KU Leuven & CEPR) and María Rodríguez-Moreno (Bank of Spain)
  Discussant: Vladimir Volkov (University of Tasmania)

• Default Risk Premium in Credit and Equity Market: A New Approach for Structural Model Estimation
  Alessandro Beber (City University London), Raffaele Corvino (City University London) and Gianluca Fusai (City University London & Università del Piemonte Orientale)
  Discussant: Alain Monfort (CREST & Bank of France)

• A Short Description of EIF Activities
  Helmut Kraemer-Eis (European Investment Fund)
  

• The Impact of EIF on the VC Ecosystem
  Simone Signore (European Investment Fund) and Dario Prencipe (European Investment Fund)
  

• Dual Recourse Instrument - A Long Term Financing Solution for SME Loans
  Luca Bertalot (European Mortgage Federation - European Covered Bond Council (EMF-ECBC))

• Transparency – The Way to Restore Confidence in the European ABS Market
  Christian Thun (European DataWarehouse GmbH)

• Informational Synergies in Consumer Credit
  Martin Hibbeln (University of Duisburg-Essen), Lars Norden (Getulio Vargas Foundation), Piet Usselmann (Braunschweig Institute of Technology) and Marc Gürtler (Braunschweig Institute of Technology)
  Discussant: Marco Da Rin (Tilburg University)

• The Evolution of the Bitcoin Economy: Extracting and Analyzing the Network of Payment Relationships
  Paolo Tasca (University College London, Centre for Blockchain Technologies), Shaowen Liu (Deutsche Bundesbank) and Adam Hayes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Discussant: Ryan Stauffer (University of Calgary)

• Key-note talk: Financing Scale-Ups, Thomas Hellmann (University of Oxford)

• Assessing the Credit Worthiness of Italian SMEs and Mini-bond Issuers
  Edward I. Altman (New York University), Maurizio Esentato (Classis Capital SIM S.p.A) and Gabriele Sabato (WiserFunding Ltd.)
  Discussant: Francesca Campolongo (JRC, European Commission)

• Support for the SME Supporting Factor - Multi-Country Empirical Evidence on Systematic Risk Factor for SME Loans
  Michel Dietsch (ACPR –Bank of France), Klaus Düllmann (European Central Bank), Henri Fraisse (ACPR – Bank of France), Philipp Koziol (European Central Bank) and Christine Ott (Deutsche Bundesbank)
  Discussant: Michele Costola (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

• Key-note talk: SMEs and Young Growth Firms in the Euro Area: How Monetary and Investment Policies Support Their Financing, Philipp Hartmann (European Central Bank)

• The Effect of Central Bank Liquidity Injections on Bank Credit Supply
  Luisa Carpinelli (Bank of Italy) and Matteo Crosignani (NYU Stern)
  Discussant: Sven Klingler (Copenhagen Business School)

• The Demand and Supply of Mortgage Rate Fixation Periods. Managing Interest Rate Risk and Credit Risk in a Low Rate Environment
  Christoph Basten (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority & ETHZ), Benjamin Guin (Bank of England) and Cathérine Koch (Bank for International Settlements)
  Discussant: Stephen Schaefer (London Business School)

Participants:

• Angelo Federico Arcelli (Partner, Oliver Wyman)
• Philipp Hartmann (Deputy Director General Research, European Central Bank)
• Thomas Hellmann (Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
• Lars Jul Overby (Head of Credit, Market and Operational Risk, European Bank Authority)
• Dario Scannapieco (Chairman, European Investment Fund & Vice-President, European Investment Bank)

• Nothing Special about Banks: Competition and Bank Lending in Britain, 1885-1925
  Fabio Braggion (Tilburg University & CentER), Narly Dwarkasing (University of Bonn) and Lyndon Moore (University of Melbourne)
  Discussant: Marcella Lucchetta (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

• Bank Business Models at Zero Interest Rates
  André Lucas (VU University Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute), Julia Schaumburg (VU University Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute) and Bernd Schwaab (European Central Bank)
  Discussant: Stine L. Daetz (Copenhagen Business School)