The workshop comprises of two half-day sessions: A. Assessing the international linkages of banking systems using the BIS international banking statistics - The role of banks in spillovers of financial sector impulses across markets; - Stress testing on international shock transmissions through...

Topics: Education and life long learning; Social cohesion; Sustainable development, and social responsibility of companies; Employment; Competence, knowledge, and human capital management; Productivity, competition, growth; Innovation: systems, models and definitions; Entrepreneurship;...

On 1 May 2009, the European Union will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the 2004 enlargement which involved 10 new Member States. This workshop aims at providing an insight into the functioning of the enlarged European Union and on the impact of enlargement on the old and recently acceded...

Topics: - Causes and consequences of violent conflicts: civil wars, interstate wars, terrorism, rebellion... - Arms trade - International trade, capital flows and violent conflicts - Institutions and violent conflicts - Multilateral institutions and conflicts - Political versus economic causes...

Die Beziehung der Schweiz zur EU ist geprägt durch das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen politischem Alleingang und wirtschaftlicher Integration. Der Preis für die beibehaltene Autonomie widerspiegelt sich im Verzicht auf die Mitgestaltung der Europäischen Union sowie im ‚autonomen...

Preliminary program: - Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley “An Institutional Theory of Momentum & Reversal” - Catherine Casamatta and Sébastien Pouget “Fund Managers’ Contracts and Short Termism” - Jamie McAndrews, Jérome Mathis, Jean-Charles Rochet “Rating the raters” - Informal...

This INFER workshop provides an opportunity for all economists interested to exchange ideas, to create links in research and to meet fellows in related subject. Researchers are invited to submit theoretical and applied papers broadly consistent with the workshop’s special topic Globalization,...

The organizers invite the submission of papers related to the broad theme of real-time data analysis in macroeconomics and finance. This includes topics such as • the creation of new real-time macroeconomic databases • modeling or forecasting data revision • constructing and evaluating...

This focused workshop is about the Globalization of Chinese companies and the political and business contexts. Topics: • Outward Direct Investment (ODI) of China and Chinese companies • Impacts of Chinese outward investment on host markets • Chinese global competitiveness and export...

Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) Lecture I: Overview, intertemporal models of the current account, global current account imbalances. Challenges to the canonical model. Lecture II: Sovereign Risk and Investment for Emerging markets. Lecture III: Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy; Speculative...