The increased use of the Internet, social media and other virtual sites for discussing and accomplishing work and organization raises both new possibilities and new challenges for conducting organizational research. We have the opportunity to view work in a different way, to access the...

This seminar provides financial regulators with a structured way of thinking through these issues and applying the ideas to financial regulatory topics. Topics: - market failure analysis; - cost-benefit analysis; - compliance analysis; - embedding best practice within an institution; and - case...

Programme: - Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit. By Kenneth Kuttner and Ilhyock Shim* (BIS) - Rental Rate under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real-Options Approach. By Honglin Wang* (HKIMR), Fan Yu (CMC and SAIF) and...

The aim of this workshop is to allow those responsible for the design and implementation of such policies to deepen their theoretical understanding of monetary operations and to compare and contrast experiences with their peers. Topics: - lessons learned from the financial crisis; - forms of...

This seminar is aimed primarily at those who wish to increase their understanding of how financial markets function. Topics: - an introduction to the relevant theory; - expert overviews of key markets and topics; - financial market regulation; and - an in-depth examination of a particular market...

Programme: - Recent Performance of the Hong Kong Dollar Foreign Exchange Market and the Linked Exchange Rate System - Transmitting Global Liquidity to East Asia: Dollar Credit in Mainland China and Hong Kong - Rising Mainland Exposure of Hong Kong Banks: Finding the Optimum Level and Assessing...

Topics: - Dynamic equilibrium with heterogeneous housing quality - Mortgage and bankruptcy constraints in equilibrium - Role of individuals' beliefs and expectations about income and house prices - Interactions between housing and labour market choices - Tenure choice: why does anyone buy a...

This one-week event will provide a rigorous overview of the foundations of empirical finance and an exposition of selected topics vital to central bank analysis. Topics: - the construction and analysis of yield curves and other term structures; - the use of option prices to infer probability...

In this seminar, we review how central banks, and the Bank of England in particular, discharge their financial stability and macroprudential policy functions. Topics: - the role of the Bank of England and its Financial Policy Committee in the new framework for financial stability; -...

People invited to one of the two meetings are welcome, and even encouraged, to attend the other one.