The recent financial crisis has led to a plethora of new questions about the objectives, policy practices and tools of central banks, especially during and after crises. Whether the crisis has changed, or should change, our view of central banking, in particular about the degree of...

Topics: quantitative measures the degree of cross-country risk sharing, and of the gains from risk sharing, based on micro and macro data; determinants of the degree of risk sharing; comparisons between interregional and international risk sharing; portfolio choices and international risk...

Topic: any area of financial economics and related fields. Focus Sessions: - Capital Constraints and Asset Pricing (Nicolae Garleanu, University of California Berkeley and CEPR) - Investment-Based Asset Pricing (Lu Zhang, University of Michigan) - Financial Regulation (Emmanuel Fahri, Harvard...