The purpose of the 10th Conference of the SEEMHN is to gather scholars working on financial development (e.g. development of banks, central banks and financial markets) and economic development (e.g. growth and structural change) in Southeastern Europe to get new, challenging and exciting...

This workshop’s purpose is to inspire reflection on the long-term future of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Starting from current crisis-related challenges, the workshop focuses on four areas in which reforms might increase the resilience of EMU architecture and the prosperity of the euro...

This course will introduce the main methods of microsimulation, with an emphasis on the practical development of policy applications. The course will explore basic techniques in static microsimulation for use in the distributional analysis across representative samples of economic agents – for...

The objective of the Day-Ahead conference is to create an opportunity for interaction among research economists within the ESCB, other central banks and academia; and to offer an outlet for high-quality, policy-relevant research oriented towards banking, finance, and monetary economics.

Topics: - Cross border bank lending, domestic credit, and the current account - Domestic and cross-border response of bank credit and leverage to national monetary policies and global liquidity - Econometric issues in modeling the current account, in particular in currency unions. - The role of...

In reply to the financial crisis, "Great Recession" and sovereign debt crisis, many central banks have pursued ultra-easy and far reaching unconventional monetary policies for several years. Yields on various bond calsses - including euro area sovereign bond yields since the sovereign debt...

This year’s conference topic will be “The Rebalancing Challenge in Europe – Perspectives for CESEE.” The CEEI 2014 will examine the multiple challenges and potentially conflicting objectives of sectoral rebalancing in Europe, with a special focus on Central, Eastern and Southeastern...

Conference Programm: Keynote addresses - European Integration and European Banking Union: Strategic Issues Session 1) Toward a European Banking Union: Transitional Issues Session 2) The European Banking Union in a Global Context Session 3) Regulatory Capture Session 4) Panel: Implementing the...

Panel 1 Credit Cycles, Central Bank Policy and the Real Economy in CESEE Session 1 Real Estate Bubbles and the Financial Crisis Session 2 The Finance-Growth Nexus: Implications for CESE Session 3 The Policy Response in Europe: How to Deal with the Financial Cycle

The special theme of this year's CEEI is "Achieving balanced growth in the CESEE countries" The economic crisis in several European countries has illustrated the importance of sustainable economic policies and of institutions promoting such policies. Achieving sustainable economic growth is of...