Topics: - What is the empirical evidence on aggregate and distributive effects of unconventional monetary policy (e.g., negative interest rates, asset purchases, targeted longer-term refinancing operations)? Through which channels are these effects transmitted? How persistent are they? - What...

The increased availability of large disaggregated datasets opens up the possibility to analyse economic and financial issues from a different perspective. The build-up of financial imbalances and excessive risk-taking before the financial crisis, and the effects of the crash, call for the...

The conference brings together academics and central bankers from around the world to consider the implications of recent research for macroeconomic policy. For each conference, six to eight papers on a common subject are written by leading specialists in the field. These papers are discussed...

Topics: any area of financial economics and related fields.

The meeting will include daily seminars in the morning, in which participants present their work, as well as less formal evening seminars scheduled at the beginning of the Symposium. In addition, four mornings will be devoted to 'focus sessions', each of which concentrates on some recent...

ESSET 2011 will be devoted to theoretical perspectives on financial crises. Focus sessions in the first week (4-8 July) will be organised around the theme of "Asset Pricing, Financial Stability, and the Crisis" . Focus sessions in the second week (11-15 July) will be organised around the theme...

In the course we will begin by critically reviewing the most popular existing real and monetary models of the business cycle both of the real business cycle and the New Keynesian variaty. We will discuss micro data on price behavior and real relative prices across countries that is at odds with...

This course will focus on recent empirical methods used to study international trade and its impacts. It will include a discussion of new import varieties, the extensive versus intensive margin in trade, measurement of the terms of trade in time-series and cross-country date, and the impact of...

This course develops a theoretical framework for the analysis of financial market liquidity and asset pricing organized around the principle of balance sheet spillover effects of leveraged financial institutions. The course begins with the theoretical framework for pricing assets in an...

This course will study the determinants of labor market outcomes, including employment, hours, unemployment, wages, and worker and job flows. It will focus on three topics: the causes of the divergent behavior of U.S. and Continental European labor markets in recent decades; the ability of job...