The 2016 Financial Markets Conference will examine liquidity from academic, regulatory, and market participant points of view. We seek to understand the various definitions and aspects of liquidity with an emphasis on the relationship to financial stability and monetary policy...

Traditionally, commercial banks have been the focus of central banks' monetary policy. However, shadow banks played key roles in the events leading up to the financial crisis, the near collapse of the financial system during that time, and in the postcrisis recovery policies. Banks' importance...

Conference Background: Theoretical and empirical research on financial markets and the banking system, with special focus on the interaction among economic agents, market rules and institutions, appears of foremost importance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

Authors are invited to submit theoretical or empirical papers on issues related to financial crises, particularly the most recent one, and to the potential overall stability and instability of developed and emerging financial markets, institutions, and economies. Topics include but are not...

The conference is intended to provide a forum for discussing innovative research on remittances and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. Possible topics include (but are not restricted to) volatility of remittances and their impact on investment and growth,...

How well do classic notions of financial fragility translate to a system with increasing intermediation by large and/or complex nonbank financial institutions like hedge funds, broker-dealers, and government-sponsored enterprises? Toward answering this question, we are interested in receiving...