Topics: - international cooperation versus coordination in monetary and/or fiscal policies; - regulatory frameworks for banking and financial markets: Is more the merrier? - the behavior of financial markets before, during, and following financial crises; - assessments of monetary and fiscal...

Topics: - the transmission of macroeconomic and financial shocks across countries or regions; - the state of cooperation in financial and banking markets and the responses and actions of policy makers; - asset price behavior before, during, and following financial crises; - the political economy...

Even before the financial crisis of 2007-2009 research into the causes and consequences of financial crises was a popular field. Nevertheless, there has been far less effort devoted to exploring the connection, from an historical perspective, between financial systems and their influence on...

Theme: Globalization, Regions, and Borders FRESH meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The meetings build on the concept that scholars present their ongoing research at an early stage, i.e. normally before it becomes published as a working paper or the...

This workshop intends to bring together papers that examine long-run characteristics and interesting events in the development of financial markets and institutions during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We are also interested in asset price behavior during this period. We especially...

We are interested in papers that evaluate the experience with European Monetary Union, the prospects of greater monetary integration spreading to other parts of the world, the problems associated with harmonizing fiscal policy conducted by sovereign states in an area with a single...

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together papers that explore the state of the art in our understanding of asset price behavior. Topics to be considered include: · stock price and real estate price bubbles; · herding and noise trading in stock markets; · other anomalies in asset...

Areas of research: - institutional structure and governance of central banks; - determinants of monetary policy instruments and the implementation of monetary policy; - range of tasks and responsibilities appropriate for a central banking institution.