We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including: - Sources of asset price fluctuations: fundamentals and bubbles - Asset prices, financial frictions and the amplification/propagation of shocks - Interactions between financial and labour-market frictions -...

The conference organisers welcome submissions of a theoretical or empirical nature. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Debt consolidation, fiscal rules, debt sustainability, sovereign debt crises and default; 2. Fiscal and monetary policy in a liquidity trap, financial...

Topics: - risk management and corporate governance in financial institutions - transparency of risk models, within and outside the organization - compensation, risk-taking and risk management - endogenous risk, liquidity risk and systemic risk - benefits and pitfalls of reduced-form models in...

Topics of the 2011 meeting include: 1) Public debt and the process of fiscal rebalancing: - Sustainability considerations of public debt - Debt consolidation in times of recessions 2) Fiscal Policy in a Globalized World - Relation of fiscal debt and external debt - The role of foreign currency...

The meeting will include daily seminars in the morning, in which participants present their work, as well as less formal evening seminars scheduled at the beginning of the Symposium. In addition, four mornings will be devoted to 'focus sessions', each of which concentrates on some recent...

ESSET 2011 will be devoted to theoretical perspectives on financial crises. Focus sessions in the first week (4-8 July) will be organised around the theme of "Asset Pricing, Financial Stability, and the Crisis" . Focus sessions in the second week (11-15 July) will be organised around the theme...

Topics: - Political and economic determinants of reforms - Information, the media and economic policies - Politics and the business cycle - Economic crises and political outcomes