Due to the corona pandemic it is at this time unclear whether we will be able to go ahead as planned. We remain hopeful that the situation improves quickly, however please be aware that the conference can take place only if it is safe to do so and may be held entirely online. The conference aims...

The BdF-CEPR are organizing a conference on December 6th, 2019, bringing together leading researchers from academia, central banks and other policy institutions to present research findings related to the effects of heterogeneity on the conduct of monetary policy. Recent research has...

The aim of the workshop is to examine recent patterns of social mobility, as well as their causes and consequences. Topics: - social mobility and income and wealth inequality, - taxation and mobility, - the role of mobility in wage setting, - social mobility and geography, - inter- versus...

The objective of the conference is to discuss recent contributions to the understanding of the digital economy and its consequences for modern societies. Keeping the spirit of previous years, the conference will feature theoretical, econometric, experimental and policy oriented contributions. We...

The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for high-quality work in labour economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe as well as key researchers from outside the region. Paper proposals are invited in any area of labour economics.

The objective is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household financial behaviour and on how it is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. Topics: - Asset allocation and debt behaviour...

Global trade growth was very weak over the past four years. While global trade grew at approximately twice the rate of GDP prior to the Great Recession, this trade elasticity has since declined to below unity. This raises the question to what extent the change in the relationship between global...

Topics: - Financial integration: implications for economic cycles, growth and trade - Capital market depth and efficiency: effects on growth and development - Availability of credit and capital market finance and firms' competitiveness - Financial deregulation and real economic activity (firm...

For this conference, we are soliciting papers, both theoretical and empirical, from a wide range of topics in corporate finance except those related to corporate governance. Topics: - Capital structure and payout policy - Security issuance and primary security markets - Corporate lessons from...

Academic sessions and a panel of practitioners will cover recent research, and will debate the future of the hedge fund industry. We welcome submissions on hedge funds, but also, more broadly, we welcome papers that improve the understanding of the roles and behavioural of market intermediaries...