This 1.5 day workshop aims to bring together academics and policy makers working on issues related to financial regulation. We especially encourage submissions of empirical research underpinned by microdata. The workshop will focus on high-quality research on the assessment of financial...

Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. Topics: - changes in wage, price and output dynamics and correlations over the business cycle - impact of medium-run macro and financial trends on the natural rate of interest and the output gap hysteresis effects and implications for monetary...

This conference promotes recent advances in macroeconomics with heterogeneity. Particular attention will be devoted to production, firms, and taxation. Topics include, but are not limited to: - The role of firm heterogeneity for monetary and fiscal policy - Trends and business cycle variation in...

The symposium aims to bring together leading researchers in the field. Papers are being sought on topics including, but not necessarily limited to: - Macroeconomic and financial history - Economic growth in the very long run - Institutions and economic development - The history of the...

The aim of the workshop is to discuss new challenges brought forward by the recent financial crisis and by the sluggish recovery in labor markets experienced by several countries. Topics: - economic recovery following boom-bust episodes - the impact on business cycles and economic policy of...

The conference will highlight evolutionary perspectives on central banks' responsibilities for price stability and financial stability. We seek high quality contributions which cover different aspects of central banks and central banking and how these tasks have been dealt with and developed...

Lutz Kilian and Ana Herrera are confirmed keynote speakers. Several experts from central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of England, European Central Bank), energy firms (e.g., Statoil), investment banks (e.g., Nordea and Handelsbanken), would also give their contributions.

At the workshop, researchers and practitioners discuss issues central to the design, regulation, and use of financial markets including liquidity, bid-ask spreads, transparency, and market structure. The organizers encourage the submission of theoretical and empirical research related to the...

Topics: - Credit, asset prices and the transmission mechanism of monetary policy - Interactions between monetary and macroprudential policy - DSGE models with an explicit role for financial intermediation - Potential tradeoffs between price stability and financial stability - Endogenous asset...

We invite academic research papers closely related to the following issues: • How severe are moral hazard problems caused by government rescue operations, and how can these problems be mitigated? • How can the government strike the right balance between limiting the immediate costs of a...