The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly exacerbated the macroeconomic vulnerabilities of low- and middle-income countries. Debt was already high prior to the onset of the pandemic, but now many developing country governments must navigate through record-high public and private debt levels, and rising...

The annual meeting will commence on Monday, 29 August 2022, 08:30 a.m. CET with welcoming remarks followed by the first of six parallel sessions which feature 34 contributed sessions in total, covering a wide variety of policy-relevant topics.

Under what conditions structural macroeconomic shocks can be identified with empirical time series models? Several influential papers have shown that, in many theoretical models, Structural VAR analysis is unable to correctly esimate the economic shocks of interest and their propagation...

The workshop will cover a range of topics related to information frictions in financial markets, with applications to macroeconomics and finance. The objective is to bring together junior and senior researchers working on information frictions from different, but closely related, fields. We...

This workshop focuses on the macroeconomic implications of micro-level frictions, such as adjustment costs, informational rigidities, search and matching frictions, costly reallocation, irreversibility, taxation, among others. Topics of particular interest include price and wage setting, capital...

This workshop is a forum for junior and senior experts to discuss cutting-edge research in the fields of economic growth and fluctuations (EGF). The workshop is open to the best type of research conducted in the EGF field. The workshop is not limited to any specific topic. We are regularly...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent developments on the identification of the real effects of financial frictions. We are particularly interested in applied theoretical and empirical work on the interplay between financial frictions, micro- and macroeconomic shocks, and their...

The aim of this conference is to bring together academics, and policy-oriented economists by providing a forum for debate on economic policy issues relevant in the European context. The 18th Conference will focus on the macroeconomic policy challenges for European economies and advanced...

The workshop organizers invite researchers to submit papers covering issues in all areas linking finance and politics. Topics: Political economy of banking; Electoral cycles and banks’ behavior; Political systems and financial crises; Political connections of firms; Political uncertainty and...

Technology advancements are driving the digitalization of financial markets, and large-scale investment in new emerging technologies are fundamentally changing the operating environment as finance is becoming more data driven. While these innovations in artificial intelligence and big data have...