The field of Artificial intelligence and machine learning has entered the world of economics, finance and central banks. Massive amounts of data are collected by central banks and supervisors world-wide nowadays. These amounts lead to new challenges. How to analyze these massive amounts? Which...

Brexit marks an unprecedented event in European history and while the United Kingdom has often been portrayed as holding back Europe, the reality is, that in several key areas, the UK has been on the forefront, notably pushing for deregulation, flexibility and deeper market integration....

Topics: - Contributions of bank regulation and supervision to efficient bank resolution, - Are bail-outs a thing of the past? - Has the problem of too-big-to-fail been solved? - What still needs to be done to eliminate the destabilizing link between banks and sovereigns? - The prospects for...

The workshop will take place in Amsterdam and will have an international audience from universities, central banks and international policy organizations. It will bring together experts directly involved in research on the financial cycle, with a view to discussing insights, challenges and...

the Second EU Cohesion Policy Conference organised by the RSA and DG Regio, together with the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, aims to take stock of the challenges and opportunities for Cohesion policy in 2014-20. Papers are invited on the following questions and themes...

Topics: 1) Regional and urban policy transfer between the EU and third countries 2) Intra-EU policy transfer and cross-national learning 3) International perspectives and comparisons: exploring the success factors in cross-national learning in regional and urban policies

We invite high quality theoretical and empirical papers on the interaction between SMEs’ business decisions, credit conditions and the aggregate economy. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - the cyclicality of credit conditions and its impact on SMEs; - credit and SME dynamics...

Papers that consider these issues in relation to the development of smart, sustainable and inclusive places (the three dimensions of the Europe 2020 Strategy) are particularly encouraged. Gateway Themes A. Climate change, energy and sustainability B. Migration, housing and labour markets C....