This workshop aims at discussing how, why and to what extent the money market was affected by the financial turbulence and at assessing how and to what extent the non-standard measures had the intended effects while checking for a possible interference with market functioning. The workshop would...

Der 2. Internationale Ökonomentag steht ganz im Zeichen der weltweiten Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise. Die drei deutschsprachigen Ökonomenverbände aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz widmen sich an diesem Tag den nationalen und internationalen Herausforderungen. Ist die wirtschaftliche...

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: • Global imbalances and the current crisis • Financial crisis, real crisis and the risks of depression and deflation • Paradigm shift in macroeconomics – the return of Keynesianism? • Economic policy reactions and the...

The tenth EABCN Training School will be a five-day course entitled “Learning and Expectations Formation”, taught by Professor Klaus Adam and Professor Albert Marcet. The course reviews the implications of relaxing the rational expectations assumption in dynamic models, focussing on...

Pension Fund Investment World Germany 2009 will offer an unbiased forum for investors to address these issues and many others through content driven case studies delivered by leading institutional investors.

Steven Ongena (CentER-Tilburg University and CEPR) The course will discuss current topics in banking and finance, with an emphasis on theory, empirical methods, applications and results. The course consists of five half-days of in-class-work. Topic 1: INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS: BANK –...

Programm: - Ziele, Formen und Herausforderungen der Regulierung - Mehr, besser, oder beides? - Zur Regulierung der Banken- und Finanzmärkte - Einfluss der Regulierung auf die Entwicklung der Finanz- und Kapitalmärkte - Investieren in regulierten Märkten - zwischen Vernunft und Verantwortung -...

Development cooperation is not solely a domain of the national states. On the contrary: Federal states (or rather in the European context: Regions) and local authorities are also important players. This is the message of the 2nd Bonn Conference on International Development. But how can and how...

The forthcoming CDA Weeklong Seminar (17th – 21st August 2009) will explore the importance of economic bridges to the development and stability of Africa. It is based on the recognition that economic interdependence between African states, and between Africa and other regions can: - Support...

The discussions will focus on the crisis developments and policy choices in Asia and Europe, then outline the future of global monetary arrangements and the prospects for global regulatory reforms.