Topics: · Concrete ways to achieve the optimal degree of transparency for different intermediaries and markets · Mark to market accounting · Opacity of banks’ assets · The role of credit rating agencies · Corporate governance, risk taking and disclosure · Implications for market liquidity

In an effort to demonstrate that macroeconomics can also be an experimental discipline, and to further promote collaboration between macroeconomic theorists and experimentalists, we are organizing the first ever international conference devoted to macroeconomic experiments and theory.