Programme: - Unconventional monetary policy in HANK, - Austerity in the aftermath of the great recession, - NLB: negative (no) lower bound policy as an efficient monetary policy instrument, - Beyond the liquidity trap: the secular stagnation of investment, - Monetary union begets fiscal union, -...

Topics: - Financial liberalisation and the finance-growth nexus; - Financial linkages and propagation channels of shocks; - Asset price co-movements, bubbles and contagion phenomena; - Financial stability implications of international financial integration and global imbalances; - Global policy...

After eight years of service as Vice-President of the European Central Bank, the mandate of Lucas Papademos will end on 31 May 2010. In order to honour his career both as a distinguished academic and as an eminent central banker, the ECB will host a two-day colloquium entitled “The great...