The 19th GEP Postgraduate Conference provides a forum for the dissemination of student research relating to issues of Globalisation and Economic Policy from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. These areas include Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, Productivity, Economics of the MNEs,...

Topics of interest: - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of the monetary policy and: the pricing of financial assets, the risk taking by banks, the spillover effects to other developed and emerging markets, the financial market liquidity. - Basel III capital and liquidity ratio...

The conference covers a broad range of themes related to challenges and advancements in understanding the monetary transmission mechanism. It seeks to bring together recent contributions in this area of research, including studies with strong theoretical basis as well as empirical...

The conference will focus on recent challenges for macroeconomic policies and structural reform design, with an emphasis on micro-macro linkages. Issues of particular interest include the links between international trade and competitiveness, the implications of dispersed productivity growth,...

We are inviting submissions for a conference on stabilisation policy with heterogeneous agents. Until recently, much of macroeconomic analysis of stabilisation policy has built on the representative agent paradigm. A new literature is emerging which has taken a novel approach introducing...

Topics: - the nexus between the quantity and the quality of growth; - key indicators of growth quality (e.g. growth variability, growth differentials across countries, environmental sustainability, income and wealth inequality); - links between indicators of growth quality and household...

The post-crisis recovery continues to disappoint in advanced and emerging economies alike. Slow growth and low inflation have led to concerns that advanced economies (AEs) might be facing secular stagnation putting greater emphasis on emerging market economies (EMEs) to support global growth....

Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

Topics: - The definition and measurement of global liquidity - Global liquidity and the direction, size and composition of international capital flows - The impact of global liquidity on asset prices and exchange rates - The impact of global liquidity on monetary and financial stability - The...