# Macro-Financial Modeling Group Conference

**Date**: Friday, May 30 and Saturday, May 31, 2014
**Time**: May 30: 11:30 AM - 4:45 PM and May 31: 8:30 AM - 4:20 PM
**Location**: NYU Stern School of Business, KMC 2-60, 44 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012

The Macro-Financial Modeling (MFM) Group Conference will focus on sovereign credit risk and financial stability. Scholars, central bankers and practitioners – including NYU Stern Professors [Viral Acharya](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/viral-acharya) and [Matteo Maggiori](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/matteo-maggiori) – will discuss interactions between credit risks of financial sectors and their respective sovereigns. MFM fellowship awardees will also present their current research on the impact of credit cycles, banking and shadow banking, monetary policy and the redistribution channel, reserves and sovereign debt capacity.

Please visit the [MFM website](http://www.mfmgroup.org/may-2014-86.html) to view the full conference schedule.

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