The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest theoretical and empirical research from all areas of finance, banking, and insurance.

Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

The topics of the conference are the origins and consequences of financial crises as well as possible solutions to prevent and overcome such crises. Both of these topics will be evaluated especially from an Austrian Economics perspective. Besides presentation and discussion of more than thirty...

The main objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for central bankers, market participants and researchers in the field of economics and finance to discuss the most recent developments in access to finance of small and medium-sized companies. Topics: - The role of banks in financing...

The workshop focuses on the empirical modelling of major transmission channels of financial market shocks using the global vector autoregressive (GVAR) framework. Understanding financial market interdependencies during times of significant monetary accommodation remains a key issue in current...

This conference is open to all researchers interested in the relationship between real estate markets and capital markets. We welcome contributions from finance and economics, as well as from economic and urban geography, regional science, urban development planning, demography, and...

Programm: - Behandlung von Finanzinstrumenten in der neuen Anlageverordnung - Bilanz- und steuerrechtliche Fragen von Bail-in-Sachverhalten sowie Stresstests - Bilanz- und steuerrechtliche Praxisfragen der Finanzierung unter Solvency II - Finanzinstrumente bei Versicherungen nach Solvency II -...

Papers in all areas of asset pricing are welcome.

Topics: - Corporate governance – financial performance link - M&As and efficiency - Shareholders’ value maximization - Influence of executive remuneration on performance - Role of control in efficiency management - Insider trading issues - Transparency, accountability and misreporting -...

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy - Atif Mian (Princeton University) This 5 day course is geared towards, (i) understanding how finance and the macro economy interact with each other, and (ii) introducing micro-empirical techniques to answer this question. The focus of the class is...