This workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing innovative research on the financial determinants of foreign exchange rates. Economists working in central banks, academics and the private sector are welcome to participate.

Topics: - The basics in payment and settlement systems - The central bank and market infrastructures - The Eurosystem and market infrastructures - The development of the market infrastructure for payments and securities handling - Market infrastructure - issues of common interest

The papers to be presented at the conference should address one or more of the following issues: - Global imbalances and their adjustment mechanisms; - International financial flows and their determinants; - Asset price co-movements and contagion phenomena; - Risk-sharing through the global...

The present conference focuses on financial development, integration and stability in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, i.e. the new EU member states, candidate and potential candidate countries as well as the European countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Relevant...

The conference will focus on issues related to risk measurement and systemic risks from a central bank perspective. Special emphasis will be devoted to questions relating to sources and consequences of financial contagion and its relation to other forms of systemic risk, macro stress testing,...