The objective of this conference is to build a platform for academicians, researchers, financial analysts, statisticians, economists, econometricians, industry professionals and policy makers to deliberate, debate and work out the strategy to forecasting financial markets in India.

The purpose of the conference is to analyze the challenges facing the development of MMEs due to non-availability of IFS and studying the ways and means to develop the IFS and the related infrastructures with a view to enhancing the access of MMEs to financial services.

The main Conference theme: “Economic Integration into the European Union-Challenges and Opportunities”. Subthemes: - Competition, Innovation and Economic Growth - Accounting Standardization - Monetary Policies and Supervision of Banking - Finance and Risk Portfolio Management

FOCUS: Credit Risk, Risk Management, Derivative Pricing, High Dimensional Quantitative Methods and other areas of Quantitative Finance

Themes: Green Growth, Environment and Sustainable Development; Millennium Development Goals and Environment; Human Welfare Impacts of the Environmental Changes; Economic Development and Environmental Degradation; Pollution, Climate Change and Impacts; Green Accounting, Environmental Valuation...

Topics: - the effects of the terms of trade on the economy - financial intermediation and monetary policy - DSGE estimation, factor models and policy evaluations - learning and DSGE estimation

The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical issues. Possible topics include: - Financial market imperfections and business cycle fluctuations - Corporate finance and macroeconomic stability - Credit and the housing market - Banking...

Sylvester Eijffinger (Tilburg University) Topics: 1. Monetary Policy in the EU 2. Fiscal Policy in the EU

The conference will provide a forum for discussing current issues and future challenges in risk transfer markets and for presenting state-of-the-art research in this field. Authors are particularly encouraged to submit empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented papers that are relevant in the...

The tentative outline of the course is: 1. The Basic New Keynesian Model 2. Monetary Policy Design in the Basic New Keynesian Model a Baseline Model for Monetary Policy Analysis 3. Extensions of the Basic NK Model(I) 4. Extensions of the Basic NK Model (II) 5. Extensions of the Basic NK Model (III)