The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical issues. Possible topics include: - Financial market imperfections and business cycle fluctuations - Corporate finance and macroeconomic stability - Credit and the housing market - Banking...

Sylvester Eijffinger (Tilburg University) Topics: 1. Monetary Policy in the EU 2. Fiscal Policy in the EU

The organisers particularly encourage submissions of papers in the following areas: 1) Theory and Techniques - Monte Carlo simulation techniques for modelling and simulating asset returns - Use of contingent claim analysis in balance sheet risk management - Innovations in portfolio optimization...

Session 1: Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) after ten years: what has the EMU brought to consumers and the corporate sector? Prices and quantities Session 2: Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) after ten years: what has the EMU brought to consumers and the corporate sector? The evolution and the...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: • Orthodoxy/Mainstream/Heterodoxy. Past and Present Developments • Is there Common Ground for Heterodox Economics? • What Can Macroeconomists Learn From Institutional, Experimental and Post Walrasian Economics? •...

Submissions of theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented contributions on all aspects related to liquidity are invited, especially papers covering the following topics: - Market liquidity, funding liquidity and liquidity in payment systems and their interrelations - The role of central banks in...

The conference is organized by the Research Group 'Price, Liquidity, and Credit Risks: Measurement and Distribution', which is funded by the German Research Foundation. The group consists of researchers in financial economics, financial econometrics, and financial mathematics at the Universities...

The topic of the 12th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘The Evolving Financial System and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy'. The structure of the financial system has changed considerably in recent years in at least three ways.

Topics: • Corporate and small business debt in foreign currency • Currency structure of household liabilities (e.g. mortgages) and assets • Modeling of currency risk • Regulation and supervision of currency risk (banks versus non bank institutions)

Marvin Goodfriend (Carnegie Mellon University) Topics: 1) The New Neoclassical Synthesis; Overview and Implications for Optimal Monetary Policy 2) International Aspects of Monetary Policy 3) Monetary History of the United States 4) Central Bank Lending 5) The Future of Monetary Policy 6) Banking...