This conference aims to bring together insights from academics and policymakers to discuss inflation risks, their drivers, and how they propagate to the real economy and financial markets, and the extent to which policymakers can respond to these challenges. Topics: - Measuring inflation risk...

Joint with the Swiss National Bank, the Study Center sponsors a biannual conference organized jointly with the Journal of Monetary Economics. Each conference focuses on a specific topic of relevance for central banks and features six to eight papers that are contributed by leading specialists in...

The conference provides a forum for discussing a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues related to monetary policy. This year, the focus will be on the monetary policy challenges facing low interest rate economies. Topics: inflation dynamics; low interest rates for long; monetary policy...

The goal of the workshop is to bring together China experts from central banks, other policy institutions and the private sector to discuss the foremost questions confronting the Chinese economy and their implications for the global economy, with a special interest towards policy-related topics...

Referenten: - Prof. Jan-Egbert Sturm, ETH Zürich, Direktor KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle, «Die Welt schottet sich ab: Aussichten für die Schweizer Wirtschaft» - Prof. Simon J. Evenett, Universität St. Gallen - SIAW - Schweizerisches Institut für Aussenwirtschaft und Angewandte...

The Symposium will focus on finance and real economy issues. Topics suitable for the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: Financial Cycle and Real Business Cycle, Effect of Financial Development on Growth, Productivity and Innovation, Associations between Financial, Property...

This workshop targets applied and theoretical research on household finance and economic stability. We are particularly interested in contributions that analyze the implications of household leverage for consumption, employment, house prices both at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The...

Programme: Session 1 - Monetary Policy and Financial Stability Session 2 - Corporate Leverage in China Session 3 - Banking Regulation and Credit Supply Session 4 - China’s Credit Boom and Business Cycle Session 5 - Banking Competition and Financial Stability

Preliminary program: - How Do Business Cycles become Global? Common Shocks or Spillovers? - Asian-Pacific Financial Market Interactions with the U.S. and China: A Structural VAR Approach - Foreign Bank Subsidiaries' Default Risk during the Global Crisis: What Factors Help Insulate Affiliates...

Programme: - Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit. By Kenneth Kuttner and Ilhyock Shim* (BIS) - Rental Rate under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real-Options Approach. By Honglin Wang* (HKIMR), Fan Yu (CMC and SAIF) and...