GARNET's core theme is ‘Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: the Role of the EU’. To integrate research from Europe and beyond, GARNET organises an international conference every year starting 2006. This one, held in Amsterdam, will be the first.

1. Monetary policy 2. Fiscal policy and monetary policy, Pensions 3. Monetary Theory, Prices and Money demand 4. Banking risk and stability, prudential regulations 5. Banking competition, mergers and costs, Interest rates 6. Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance 7. Credit, asset prices and...

Topics: · Market structure · Integration and concentration of markets · Market stability, liquidity and transparency · Monetary policy implementation and the money market · High frequency data and the impact of news arrival · Understanding market volatility and risk

The themes of the conference are: - Financial Institutions and Markets - Corporate Finance and Governance - Financial stability and the macro economy - Finance and growth

The workshop will focus more specifically on the following topics: - Monetary Policy in the Euro area - Open Macroeconomics Dynamics and Exchange Rate - Productivity and Potential Output Performances, and Impact of Structural Reforms - Current Account Adjustment - Economic Growth and Convergence