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...

Within the general fields of economic growth and economic history, we are looking for papers dealing with, among others, the following topics: - The transition from stagnation to growth - The Great Divergence - Geography versus institutions - International trade and growth - Technical progress...

The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working on sovereign risk. The topics of the conference are the following: • Theoretical models. Why do countries repay their debts? What are the effects of sovereign risk? • Empirical analysis. What are the costs of default? When...