Topics: · Concrete ways to achieve the optimal degree of transparency for different intermediaries and markets · Mark to market accounting · Opacity of banks’ assets · The role of credit rating agencies · Corporate governance, risk taking and disclosure · Implications for market liquidity

We invite submissions for the CEPR workshop from interested researchers on any topics within the area of Development Economics. We encourage submissions of papers on economic development from all parts of the developing world -- Africa, Asia, Latin America but also including work on the...

BMSS 2010 will offer a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses will cover recent developments in different areas of macroeconomics, including growth, international finance, monetary policy, and econometric methods. The courses are aimed at graduate students...

In an effort to demonstrate that macroeconomics can also be an experimental discipline, and to further promote collaboration between macroeconomic theorists and experimentalists, we are organizing the first ever international conference devoted to macroeconomic experiments and theory.

Topics: - What are the biases in existing measures of the welfare impact of new goods? - What do we really know about the value of variety for consumers? - How representative for the economic impact of new goods are existing historical case studies (lighting, cell phones, railways)? - What...