Our economic forecasting experts, along with local industry and business leaders, will address the following questions: U.S Economy Local froth or national bubble? How will real estate impact the US economy over the next two years? Will the Fed continue to tighten? When will this finally be felt...

A growing 43% of the Southern California population identify themselves as Hispanic, and many demographers believe this number to be even higher. The Hispanic contribution to the Southern California economy is rising significantly, with a 50% increase in aggregate income between 1990 and 2003....

The current level of hype about real estate bears a worrisome resemblance to the dot.com bubble of the late nineties. Financial companies tout no-money-down interest-only loans as a way of extending speculators purchasing power, and developers pitch new developments to buyers the way Wall Street...

The conference aims to bring together academics, researchers in central banks and policy-makers to discuss the existing empirical evidence on structural changes brought about, either directly or indirectly, by the introduction of the euro in five areas: Trade integration Structural reforms in...

Over the past five years, substantial experience with money market operations by the Eurosystem has been gained. Moreover, from March 2004, further important changes to the Eurosystem's framework for monetary policy implementation have come into effect. In light of these changes, and given the...