The annual Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago International Finance Conference is designed to focus on important current international issues in banking and finance that are best analyzed by bringing together researchers and policymakers from different countries and different perspectives. The...

The objective of the conference is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household asset accumulation, debt, and consumption behavior over the life cycle. The focus of the conference is on papers based on household-level, survey data...

The following courses will be offered: - Banking Theory - Empirical Banking - Imperfect Competition - Banking Regulation - Empirical Banking - Methodological Aspects

The following courses will be offered: - Panel Data Linear Analysis - Discrete Choice Models - Dynamic Panel Data Models and Non-linear Panel Data Models - Causal Inference and Program Evaluation

Topics: - Liquidity risk in global payment and settlement systems - Globalisation of financial markets and liquidity management - Systemic risk in global payments - Interdependencies in payment and settlement systems - Collateral management in global payment and settlement systems - Recent...

Session 1: The role of harmonised monetary, financial and economic statistics in monetary and other economic policies Session 2: Future directions for the collection and compilation of statistics Session 3: Future co-ordination and collaboration strategies in the area of statistics Session 4:...

Objective and topics: The European banking sector and financial system have evolved greatly over the last decade. Fundamental changes include the adoption of new technology in the provision of banking services, disintermediation, financial liberalisation, the emergence of new financial...

This conference will provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues regarding alternative options central banks face when defining their price stability objective. Research papers on the optimal level of inflation; on the zero bound on nominal...

Topics: • Payments and monetary stability • Payments and the macroeconomy • Systemic risk in payments • The future of payments • Recent developments in market infrastructure • Recent developments in payment economics • The role of central banks in payments