The organizing committee of this small, informal conference invites submissions of high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.

The aim of this conference is not only to demonstrate why scholars’ works on these currencies are of scientific value, which reflects the practical value of the experiences themselves, but to affirm that they should obtain a significant role with regard to various disciplines that are...

Payment and Settlement Systems are a vital part of the economic and financial infrastructure and contribute to the overall economic performance and financial stability by facilitating efficient financial intermediation. In less than 10 years, India has made enormous strides in creating the...

Topics: - How to identify and measure systemic risk for financial institutions and markets - How to design and calibrate prudential regulation of systemic risk - How to conduct macro stress tests - Regulation of cross-border banking activities - Prudential regulation of capital flows - Sources...

Conference Background: Theoretical and empirical research on financial markets and the banking system, with special focus on the interaction among economic agents, market rules and institutions, appears of foremost importance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the worldwide development and their weight will increase further . They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments and policies in the region. This...

The following fields will be discussed: a) Causes of Financial crisis: Interest rates, International Imbalances and the Great Moderation ("Minsky Effect") b) Trade and financial flows: Savings - consumption imbalance c) Macroeconomic Performance: Core and Periphery in EU d) Eurozone in Distress:...

This seminar analyses the causes and consequences of both, stressing that they are inherently linked by the structure of the economy and the nature of the shocks. The following topics are likely to be covered: • an introduction to recent research on exchange rates, in particular market...

The 2010 Future of Cash Conference will address the following issues: - Ensuring the robustness of the cash cycle - Convergence of euro-zone cash cycles - Optimizing cash management - Re-engineering the cash cycle - Cash substitution