Topics: - Global debt markets and international dimensions of safe asset demand; - Changing structures and new players in global financial markets; - Macroeconomic consequences of dominant currencies in global financial markets; - Deviations from covered interest parity and exchange rate...

Research Clusters were set up by the Heads of Research in order to encourage interaction and collaboration between European System of Central Banks (ESCB) researchers working on fields of common interest. The Research Cluster is open to all ESCB researchers and participation is...

Professor Wouter den Haan and Dr Pontus Rendahl will teach the course. It is primarily aimed at participants in the Euro Area Business Cycle Network but applications will also be considered from doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and economists working in central banks and government...

The main objective of the workshop is to provide advanced PhD economists, about to go on the job market, with an opportunity to present their research to their peers and leading researchers in the field in order to obtain feedback and practice the presentation of their key research ideas. We...

This workshop will bring together policymakers and academics with an interest in the implications of ambiguity in financial and macroeconomic contexts. Submissions of theoretical and empirical papers on the following issues are welcome. - Aspects of ambiguity, inattention, information frictions,...

Credit market dynamics have increasingly influenced macroeconomic developments in recent years. Notably, since the start of the recent Great Recession, credit markets have been a major source of macroeconomic disturbances as well as being important in the transmission of shocks originating...

We invite theoretical and empirical research aimed at improving our understanding of the sources of fluctuations, their propagation, and their implications for macro policy in today’s globalised environment. Topics of special interest include, but are not restricted to: - Trade linkages,...

Western economies have now suffered from five years of stagnation. Is this just another recession, albeit unusually severe, or has it been characterised by self-sustaining low-level equilibria or traps? We invite papers that may shed light on this question. We envisage that these may be drawn...