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  • ECON 3416 Special Problems in Money and Banking

    Did you like ECON 2411 Money and Banking?

    Want to take more in that topic?

     

    SPRING 2021

    Special Problems in Money & Banking  - ECON 3416

    prerequisites: 2202, 2411 

    With special guest lecturer: she is the former CFO of a publicly traded community bank 

    TOPICS: 

    Efficient regulation – cost benefit 

              Internal policy on credit losses 

              Ability to switch modeling (earnings smoothing) 

    Financial Crisis 

              History, Cause, Effect 

              Policy Response 

                         Dodd Frank 

                         CFPB 

                         Interest on excess reserves 

                         Stress tests 

                         Living wills 

                         Capital requirements 

                         Prop trading 

    CECL  

              New accounting rules, BIG BATH?  

              Credit loss estimation – new horizon 

              Capital Market impact 

                         Shorter duration 

                         Credit availability 

                         Yield curve implications  

              Data analytics –crowded trades à exit 

    COVID-19 

              Central Bank responses 

                         “Main street” lending programs 

                         PPP loan administration 

              Support & stress on financial systems     

                         Forbearance 

                         Re-structuring 

                         Moratoria  

     

    For more information, contact: Economics Department at economics@uconn.edu

If you have any questions, please contact Economics Advising Office at 860-486-3022.