Topics: - Cross border bank lending, domestic credit, and the current account - Domestic and cross-border response of bank credit and leverage to national monetary policies and global liquidity - Econometric issues in modeling the current account, in particular in currency unions. - The role of...

Preliminary Programme: Keynote Session Keynote 1: Contagion and Spillovers – the Recent European Experience and the Way Forward Keynote 2: Elections as Confidence Multipliers in Emerging Democracies Session 1: Real Economy Channels of Crisis Transmission Session 2: Financial Sector...