This conference brings together high-level experts from academia, from regulators and from banks coming from the West and from the East to discuss differences and similarities of financial markets in the East and the West and their needs for regulation.

Developments in capital markets, namely, current account imbalances and financial integration, and labour markets rigidities have been among the most noticed difficulties some countries have been facing after adopting the Euro. To discuss these issues, and the lessons that emerge from the...