Topics: - Dynamics of unemployment: How does unemployment, and particularly long-run unemployment, adjust to a slowdown in economic activity? Is there symmetry between upturns and downturns? Have these adjustment mechanisms changed in the current crisis environment? What explains variations of...

The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the worldwide development and their weight will increase further . They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments and policies in the region. This...

In response to the financial crisis of 2007-2009, a number of countries are currently reconsidering and changing the setup of their financial supervisory system. In a large number of countries, central banks will be given a more prominent role, in micro- and especially in macro-prudential...

The conference is targeted at quantitative experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers as well as academics. It aims at facilitating an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the participating organisations, encouraging knowledge...

Submissions of theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects related to systemic risk, spillovers, systemically important financial institutions, changes in financial regulation including the creation of a systemic risk supervisor are invited, especially papers covering the following...

Topics: • What are the different sources of (il)liquidity, and how are they related? • How can liquidity risk be measured? • The risks arising from liquidity spirals, and how to contain them. • The consequences of aggregate liquidity shortages for bank liquidity management. • Opacity...

Course Offering Summer 2010: - Dynamic Micro Models and Policy Evaluation: Theory and Empirical Applications - Panel Data Linear Analysis - Microeconometrics Lab - Policy Evaluation: Estimating Average, Marginal, and Policy-Relevant Effects of Interventions -Dynamic Panel Data Models and...

The Zvi Griliches Research Summer School in the Economics of Innovation promotes interactions between academic researchers, innovation policy practitioners, statistical office analysts and PhD students with a general interest in analyzing technological innovation from an economic point of...

The BBSS offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and payments systems. Course...

The goal of the Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School is to cover a wide range of topics in labor economics from a variety of perspectives. In particular, the BLSS offers courses that will cover recent developments within the macro-labor, micro-labor and managerial-labor contexts. In each...