The aim of this conference is to bring researchers together to discuss what menu of activities would provide a robust perspective for the bank business model of the future.

Conference topics include, but are not limited to

• Definition and identification of bank business models
• Diversity vs. similarity of business models within a financial system
• Large banks vs. small lenders: granularity of the financial system
• Challenges to existing bank business models
• Stability implications of structural changes to bank business models
• Separation of investment banking and commercial banking
• Integration of asset management in commercial banks
• Policy restrictions on banks’ trading activities
• Relations between banks and insurers; the viability of bancassurance
• Viability of bank business models in a low-interest-rate environment
• Competition within the banking industry and with related sectors, including FinTechs

There will also be a keynote speech by Asli Demirgüç-Kunt (World Bank).

Paper submission procedure

Interested parties should submit their draft papers and any questions to banking-research@bundesbank.de. The submission deadline is 29 October 2017.

Please indicate in the e-mail whether or not you are willing to act as a discussant. Authors of accepted papers will be contacted by early December 2017. Economy class travel and accommodation will be covered (within limits) for presenting authors, discussants and invited young researchers.

Organisers

• Falko Fecht (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management)

• Daniel Foos (Deutsche Bundesbank)

• Alexander Schulz (Deutsche Bundesbank)

• Günseli Tümer-Alkan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Programme committee

• Kartik Anand (Deutsche Bundesbank)

• Frederic Boissay (BIS)

• Martin Brown (University of St. Gallen)

• Ben Craig (Cleveland Fed)

• Hans Degryse (KU Leuven)

• Ralph de Haas (EBRD)

• Simone Manganelli (ECB)

• Camelia Minoiu (IMF)

• Steven Ongena (University of Zurich)

• Jose-Luis Peydro (University Pompeu Fabra)

• Tanju Yorulmazer (University of Amsterdam)