The goal of this conference is to bring international researchers together, permitting a comparative analysis of wealth and economic development, globally, in the middle ages, c. 300-c.1500. What were the foundations of medieval growth? How was growth characterized? Who forged ahead in wealth,...

Relevant topics include issues such as • The role of the Euro in a changing international environment • The viability of the US current account deficit • Multilateral exchange rate regimes and policy coordination • Financial and exchange rate crises • Re-regionalization: the role of...

The new “new economy” involves not only novel information, but it is also characterized by increased spatial and functional fragmentations of the value-added chains. On the one hand they may give rise to information failures and problems of uncertainty which require the development of new...

Uncertainty, insecurity and conflict are constitutive features of globalisation. 9/11 has been viewed as the symbolic unleashing of a new Age of Terror, in which traditional conceptions of national security are shattered and a new kind of global vulnerability emerges. This interdisciplinary...

The topic of this year's conference is “Pensions in an Ageing Society”. Worldwide, ageing will have a major impact on the economy. Social security and pension systems must be designed to meet changes in the demographic composition of the population. For central banks, ageing of the society...

Naturwissenschaftliche, technische und natürliche Systeme sind nicht allein wegen ihrer Komplexität im Blickfeld der Forschung und Anwendung. Auf Grund der zunehmenden Komplexität solcher Systeme rücken zusätzlich Phänomene der Fremd- und Selbstorganisation in den Vordergrund. Wichtige...

The conference will focus on issues related to risk measurement and systemic risks from a central bank perspective. Special emphasis will be devoted to questions relating to sources and consequences of financial contagion and its relation to other forms of systemic risk, macro stress testing,...