The conference will focus on issues related to risk measurement and systemic risks from a central bank perspective. Special emphasis will be devoted to questions relating to sources and consequences of financial contagion and its relation to other forms of systemic risk, macro stress testing,...

Whenever the fascists came to power in Europe, they banned the work of the Austrian economists. The reason: the Austrians wrote as vehemently against "right-wing" central planning as against old-fashioned left-wing socialism. While many are alert to the dangers of socialism, far fewer know of...

The 2005 Australian Conference of Economists will be held at the University of Melbourne from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2005. Confirmed speakers include: Olivier Blanchard (MIT), Alison Booth (ANU), Roger Craine (Berkeley), David Fielding (Otago), James Galbraith (Texas), Simon...

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Economic and social sets of human rights (like political and civil rights) have been primarily defined as individual rights. John Rawls for instance deals with the problem "how a society should determine what constitutes a basic set of rights and thus constitutes justice: each of us should go...

In recent years, economic theorists have made important advances in understanding the transition of economies from pre-industrial stagnation to modern economic growth, while economic historians have developed a detailed empirical account of economic growth over the second millennium. The aim of...

We believe that it is time to organise a broader conference on the history of macroeconomics that will draw together economists and historians of economics who are working on the subject. Our hope is that this will encourage more systematic inquiries into the subject and open up new ways of...