8:45-9:00 Registration & Coffee
9:00-9:15 Opening comments from Andre Spicer (Dean of Bayes Business School)
9:15–9:30 Welcome Talk by Professor Barbara Casu (Bayes Business School)
9:30-10.30 Keynote Speaker: Dame Colette Bowe (Bank of England). Chair: Barbara Casu (Bayes Business School).
- Dame Colette will speak about the link between household indebtedness and financial stability, and the Financial Policy Committee’s recent analysis in assessing the risks
10:30-11:00 Break
11.00-12.30
Session 1 - Chair: Francesc Rodriguez-Tous (Bayes Business School)
- Network vs Integrated Organizational Structure of Cooperative Banks: Evidence on the Italian Reform (Elena Beccalli, Ludovico Rossi, Andrea Viola).
- Presenter: Elena Beccalli (Catholic University, Milan)
- Cooperative banks, business models and efficiency: A stochastic frontier approach analysis (Rym Ayadi, Sandra Challita, Doriana Cucinelli)
- Presenter: Doriana Cucinelli (University of Parma)
- Agency problems in mutual insurance organizations: A financial soundness perspective (Benjamin Smet Frederiek Schoubben Cynthia Van Hulle)
- Presenter: Benjamin Smet (KU Leuven)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00
Session 2 - Chair: Angela Gallo (Bayes Business School)
- Deposit Insurance and Credit Union Financial Reporting Quality (Dimitris Chronopoulos, Linh Nguyen, Lemonia Rempoutsika, John Wilson)
- Presenter: John Wilson (University of St Andrews)
- Are (Nonprofit) Banks Special? The Economic Effects of Banking with Credit Unions (Andr´es Shahidinejad)
- Presenter: Andres Shahidinejad (University of Chicago)
- Members remuneration as a motivation of earnings management in credit union (Javier Gomez Biscarri, Germán López-Espinosa, Andrés Mesa-Toro )
- Presenter: Andrés Mesa-Toro (Universidad de Navarra)
15.00-15.20 Break
15.20–16.20
Session 3 - Chair: Joseph Thompson (BSA)
- Co-operative values and principles-oriented HRM practices, ‘co-operative difference’ and affective commitment: The moderating role of the size of organisation (Przemysław Piasecki, Andrew Gall, Burcin Hatipoglu)
- Presenter: Przemysław Piasecki (Poznań University of Economics and Business)
- The Beauty of Being Involved: The Cooperative Bank Case (Franco Fiordelisi, Stefano Grimaldi, Juan Sergio Lopez, Maria Carmela Mazzilis)
- Presenter: Franco Fiordelisi (Essex University)
16.20-16.30 Break
16.30–17.30
Session 4 - Chair: Andrew Gall (BSA)
- Launch of Credito Cooperativo Research Centre (CCRC) on Cooperative Studies
- Presenter: Elena Beccalli (Catholic University, Milan)
- Panel Discussion: The Future of Financial Mutuals
- Panellists: Hans Groeneveld (Tilburg University), Thomas Poulsen (Copenhagen Business School), Giorgio Caselli (University of Cambridge), Eric Meyer (Muenster University).
17.30-17.45 Q&A and Conclusions
17.45-18.30 Drinks Reception