Topics: - Fair value accounting - Loan loss provisioning models, banks' practices, and pro-cyclicality - Information disclosure, market discipline and bank behaviour Submissions that deal with other research questions pertinent to bank accounting and its interaction with regulatory rules are...

This conference is designed to provide a forum for debate on how to achieve sustainable financial stability. The discussion will focus on the long-term effects of changing economic conditions, additional regulatory requirements and new macro prudential policies on the financial system.

Topics: - The tradeoff between the speed of fiscal consolidation and the strength of anti-cyclical policy in the current macroeconomic environment and in general, - The roles played by different fiscal policy instruments, - The effects of anti-cyclical policy in theory and in practice, -...

The Institute of Employment Research (IAB) and the Deutsche Bundesbank hold a joint conference on the problems of the labour market performance during the crisis in Europe and also the U.S. Of specific (but not exclusive) interest are submissions on - The role of labor mobility for Euro Area...

Topic: all areas of macroeconomics and finance in emerging markets

Europäischer Ausschuss für Systemrisiken (ESRB) Seit Ausbruch der Finanzkrise steht die Finanzmarktaufsicht in der EU, die stark auf nationalen Strukturen aufgebaut ist, zur Disposition. Die Kommission schlägt nun vor, dass der ESRB über die Stabilität des gesamten europäischen...

The aim of the conference is to bring together high-level researchers and to provide a ground for discussion on how to regulate and supervise banks in the post-crisis era. The main topics of the conference include systemic risk, systemically important financial institutions, risk management and...

Topics: - What are the determinants of banks’ cross-border assets and liabilities (including institutional factors like regulation and taxes)? Do banks facilitate, attenuate or distort international capital flows? - What can international banks do that capital markets cannot achieve? What are...

Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to, the following research areas: Re-assessment and evaluation • of government support measures and crisis management (e.g. the issue of how crisis management can be improved by establishing a new financial market architecture);...

Conference Programme: - Fiscal policy in a currency union - Sustainable fiscal policy within a currency union - The dynamics of sovereign debt crises in a monetary union - Public debt and changing inflation targets - Unresolved fiscal stress and uncertainty in inflation targets - Optimal...