IMAEF is a forum for the exchange and fertilisation of ideas, knowledge and scientific achievements in economics and finance. During the conference, academics, researchers and practitioners will present novel developments in applied economics and finance and will discuss on currently debated...

Theme of the Conference: Fifteen years after the Global Financial Crisis: Recessions and Business Cycles in the History of Economic Thought. Special attention will be granted to proposals that aim to explore how economists have explained the business cycle phenomenon in general, and its crisis...

The aim of the conference is to build bridges between the trade union movement and the post- and de-growth community, and to situate a transformative just transition vision within the ‘beyond growth’ narrative. It should prompt reflection on how the (contested) concept of just transition and...

Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

Topics: Exchange rates and Currency Markets; Monetary Theory and Policy; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Financial Econometrics; Macroeconomics; Financial Effects of Euro Adoption; Banking and Finance; Trade Effects and Financial Development in New EU Member Countries; EU Economics;...

This two-day international workshop will bring together in Louvain-la-Neuve doctoral students involved in research in the field of the Economics of Digitization with both theoretical and empirical focus. Topics: Telecommunications – Internet and Software Industries – Regulation and...

Controlling inflation is the main objective of monetary policy. The low inflation rates over the past few years illustrate that stabilizing inflation is not straightforward. Recently, inflation realisations have surprised on several occasions. At the global level, inflation responses to the...

This conference will examine the process of EU economic convergence in its various forms and consider its driving factors. How can we spot the crucial trends in convergence and how can they help us understand and stimulate the process? What roles do education, structural funds and regional...

Programme: Panel 1: Scars or scratches: how damaging is the fall-out from the crisis for the real economy and the natural rate of interest? Panel 2: The financial sector and prudential policies in the new normal. Panel 3: Monetary policy beyond normalisation: objectives and instruments.