The programme will include policy and academic sessions on the following themes: - Payment choice and global payments - Retail payments in a digital era - faster, cheaper, easier? - User experience, behaviour and trust in retail payments - Innovators, regulators and the competition-cooperation...

Topics: - international cooperation versus coordination in monetary and/or fiscal policies; - regulatory frameworks for banking and financial markets: Is more the merrier? - the behavior of financial markets before, during, and following financial crises; - assessments of monetary and fiscal...

Even before the financial crisis of 2007-2009 research into the causes and consequences of financial crises was a popular field. Nevertheless, there has been far less effort devoted to exploring the connection, from an historical perspective, between financial systems and their influence on...