The organizers welcome theoretical and applied papers from a variety of areas, such as competition policy, banking, game theory, political economy, financial economics and fiscal policy. Potential topics include: - Do bank rescue packages have adverse consequences for competition? If banks are...

The course consists of several distinct, but interconnected lectures: · Lecture 1. Simple Models of Policy Interactions: Some Monetary Doctrines · Lecture 2. Fiscal Theory of the Price Level · Lecture 3. Policy Interactions with Tax Distortions · Lecture 4. Fiscal Limits · Lecture 5. Policy...

We welcome especially contributions that analyze the interaction between microeconomic financial structures and macroeconomic policies and stability objectives. We seek to attract high quality theoretical and empirical work around five main themes: 1. Contagion 2. Stability effects of...