Papers that examine competition between financial intermediaries, the risk taking of individual banks, the stability of the financial sector and its regulation are of particular interest. The workshop aims at linking young economists interested in related topics. It provides a platform to...

The Barcelona GSE Banking Summer School offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. Summer courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets...

The Barcelona GSE Labor Economics Summer School covers a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, this summer school offers courses that will cover recent developments within the macro-labor and micro-labor contexts. In each course, both theoretical...

This workshop will bring together applied economists working in the fields of global linkages, international economics, productivity growth and firms dynamics to discuss the most recent academic research. We are particularly (even though not exclusively interested in contributions that analyze...

The general objective of the workshop is to reassess the overall framework of the EU along three dimensions: Monetary union; Fiscal union; Banking union. Specific objectives include but are not restricted to: (i) the sustainability of sovereign debt, and of union-wide sharing mechanisms, (ii)...

This workshop will bring together experts in banking, regulation, and financial economics to discuss the most recent academic research on financial intermediation. Topics: - Regulation of systemic risk, pro-cyclicality, capital and liquidity regulation, systemically relevant banks and...

In recent years an exciting economic literature has emerged that seeks to understand disparities in economic development across countries by going far back in history. Distant historical events can often be linked to long-lasting effects on institutions, culture, human capital and technology; in...

The conference deliberations will deal with the following themes: - Cash: inefficient, outdated and a facilitator of crime? - Cash: still used vastly, not at the heart of current low inflation rates and keeper of civil rights? - Central Bank Digital Money and e-Krona: the future?

Topics of interest: - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of the monetary policy and: the pricing of financial assets, the risk taking by banks, the spillover effects to other developed and emerging markets, the financial market liquidity. - Basel III capital and liquidity ratio...