Topics: - the evolution of bank business models and risk-taking preferences in response to regulatory change (Basel III) - the implications of the zero bound problem for (SME) lending choices - the existence of multiple policy objectives and private vs government lending - the challenges...

We are pleased to announce details of the latest EABCN Training School; a three-day course entitled "Term structure models and the zero lower bound". Dr Jens Christensen will teach the course. Jens Christensen is a senior economist in the Financial Research Section of the Federal Reserve Bank of...

This year’s conference will focus on Efficiently Inefficient Markets.

Topics: - Cross border bank lending, domestic credit, and the current account - Domestic and cross-border response of bank credit and leverage to national monetary policies and global liquidity - Econometric issues in modeling the current account, in particular in currency unions. - The role of...

The conference will provide a forum to discuss innovative research on long-term growth, the determinants of natural real interest rates, and secular stagnation and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. The Program Committee welcomes papers addressing (but not...

The Workshop will bring together researchers interested in studying entrepreneurship. We welcome submissions related to (occupational) choice, entrepreneurial behaviour, incentives to promote entrepreneurship, relevant program evaluations, entrepreneurship & institutions, the management of...

Topics: - cross-border financial linkages and monetary policy; - trade integration, financial integration and the propagation of and adjustment to shocks; - sovereign risk, financial frictions and monetary policy; - standard and non-standard monetary policies in multi-sector/multi-country...

DIW Berlin and CEPR will host the conference on the role of the European Central Bank and its bond purchasing programme OMT. The Conference is thought as a forum to discuss the arguments pro and con and also to point out ways out of the crisis.

Topics: - The impact of government ownership of banks on efficiency, credit and financial stability - Politics and banking - Subsidies implicit in the financial safety net, and how to eliminate them - How to cope with the too-big-to-fail and too-complex-to-fail phenomena - The fiscal costs of...

Topics: - risk management and corporate governance in financial institutions - transparency of risk models, within and outside the organization - compensation, risk-taking and risk management - endogenous risk, liquidity risk and systemic risk - benefits and pitfalls of reduced-form models in...