The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the worldwide development and their weight will increase further . They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments and policies in the region. This...

Topics: - The role of central bank communication in the conduct of monetary policy and in ensuring financial stability. Is the role of communication in maintaining price stability and financial stability different? What should be communicated with respect to financial stability? How should...

Submissions of theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects related to systemic risk, spillovers, systemically important financial institutions, changes in financial regulation including the creation of a systemic risk supervisor are invited, especially papers covering the following...

The objective of the conference is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household asset accumulation, debt, and consumption behaviour over the life cycle. The focus of the conference is on research that makes extensive use of household...

Topics: • What are the different sources of (il)liquidity, and how are they related? • How can liquidity risk be measured? • The risks arising from liquidity spirals, and how to contain them. • The consequences of aggregate liquidity shortages for bank liquidity management. • Opacity...

Topics: - Financial liberalisation and the finance-growth nexus; - Financial linkages and propagation channels of shocks; - Asset price co-movements, bubbles and contagion phenomena; - Financial stability implications of international financial integration and global imbalances; - Global policy...

Programm: - Excess Global Savings, Zero Interest Rates and the Confluence of Fiscal and Monetary Policy - Global Interest Rates, Monetary Policy, and Currency Returns - The Domestric and International Effects of Interstate U.S. Banking - Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S....

Specific questions are, among others: • Measuring interconnectedness of financial institutions at the national and in-ternational level. • Consequences of financial integration for financial stability and regulation. • Bank regulation and its impact on bank behaviour, competition and...

After eight years of service as Vice-President of the European Central Bank, the mandate of Lucas Papademos will end on 31 May 2010. In order to honour his career both as a distinguished academic and as an eminent central banker, the ECB will host a two-day colloquium entitled “The great...

CEPR and the Deutsche Bundesbank are jointly organizing a one and a half day workshop focusing on the macroeconomics of global interdependence. Papers are being sought that focus on the following topics from the perspective of global integration: · Global monetary system and financial...