The 19th GEP Postgraduate Conference provides a forum for the dissemination of student research relating to issues of Globalisation and Economic Policy from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. These areas include Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, Productivity, Economics of the MNEs,...

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...

This colloquium aims to identify avenues for the euro area to cope with these uncertainties by taking them as triggers to actively embark on reforms, embrace new technologies and pursue cooperation and integration. We welcome economic and finance papers which fit into the overall theme of the...

The conference covers a broad range of themes related to challenges and advancements in understanding the monetary transmission mechanism. It seeks to bring together recent contributions in this area of research, including studies with strong theoretical basis as well as empirical...

The workshop will bring together leading economists from central banks and academic institutions to consider critical issues related to policy coordination between instruments and between countries. The financial crisis and the ensuing slow recovery brought to the forefront policy coordination...

The conference will focus on recent challenges for macroeconomic policies and structural reform design, with an emphasis on micro-macro linkages. Issues of particular interest include the links between international trade and competitiveness, the implications of dispersed productivity growth,...

We are inviting submissions for a conference on stabilisation policy with heterogeneous agents. Until recently, much of macroeconomic analysis of stabilisation policy has built on the representative agent paradigm. A new literature is emerging which has taken a novel approach introducing...

The exchanges at the conference will combine the contribution of recent academic knowledge on the subject and the experience of both public and private practitioners to answer central issues of macroeconomic policy and financial regulation : - What role for macroeconomic policy in the management...

Topics: - the nexus between the quantity and the quality of growth; - key indicators of growth quality (e.g. growth variability, growth differentials across countries, environmental sustainability, income and wealth inequality); - links between indicators of growth quality and household...

The conference seeks to bring together academics and policy makers to discuss the aggregate implications of structural reforms, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Topics: - The macroeconomic impact of structural reforms, both in the short and long run - The optimal timing of...