Topics may include, but are not limited to: • Business cycles and bank credit standards • Macroeconomic conditions, risk taking by banks and procyclicality • Procyclicality of capital requirements and implications for monetary policy • Procyclicality of financial regulation •...

The topic of the 13th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘Financial Supervision in an Uncertain World’. The recent turmoil on global financial markets and the following recession have raised concerns that the current financial supervisory system does not suffice anymore. This can mainly be...

Topics: • Corporate and small business debt in foreign currency • Currency structure of household liabilities (e.g. mortgages) and assets • Modeling of currency risk • Regulation and supervision of currency risk (banks versus non bank institutions)

In the past decade, Fondation Banque de France's Journées have been an annual event featuring the outcome of previous research grants. This year's harvest includes three papers on the systematic variations in expected loss and liquidity, the impact of securitization on bank lending and the cost...

We encourage research on the importance of behavioural biases and expectations formation and behavioural bi-ases for business cycle fluctuations and invite papers on the implications of these biases and of alternative expec-tations formation mechanisms for modelling business cycle fluctuations...