Both theoretical and empirical papers are encouraged in areas, which include (but are not limited) to: - Asset Pricing and Derivatives, - Banking, - Capital Structure and Corporate Finance, - Commercial and Asset-based Finance (Assifact Award), - Corporate Governance (Nedcommunity Award), -...

Topics: - Monetary policy and the financial cycle - Search-for-yield and risk-taking channels of monetary policy - The role of household and firm heterogeneity in the transmission mechanism - Monetary policy and inequality - Debt deflation and deleveraging at the zero lower bound - Structural...

The workshop is intended for theoretical work or applied work in Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Finance and Public Finance. Papers in any area of Economics and Finance in relation to the overarching theme of the workshop are welcome.

The conference will discuss to what extent prevailing central bank governance rules – which were designed decades ago with a completely different economic setting in mind – are still appropriate in the post-crisis world. Are central bank independence, accountability and transparency, and the...