The Conference aims to have intellectual discourse on issues related to international trade and finance and provide platform to the researchers for communicating their views on their intellectual standing of empirical research in international economics. The main thrust areas of the conference...

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.

The following fields will be discussed: a) Causes of Financial crisis: Interest rates, International Imbalances and the Great Moderation ("Minsky Effect") b) Trade and financial flows: Savings - consumption imbalance c) Macroeconomic Performance: Core and Periphery in EU d) Eurozone in Distress:...

Theme: Valuing Growth Trends in Development Finance A scientific understanding of the theory and practice of development finance is central to our understanding of how global financial architecture emerges and evolves across developing, emerging and developed economies. The recent financial...

At this year's conference eminent scholars and top economic policy makers will discuss the following lead questions: - Where do we stand with fair and measured regulatory reform to strengthen the global financial system? How to reduce the risks posed to taxpayers and to broader social...

The conference is intended to provide a forum for discussing innovative research in economics, undertaken by both IMF staff and by outside economists, and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) will...

This seminar analyses the causes and consequences of both, stressing that they are inherently linked by the structure of the economy and the nature of the shocks. The following topics are likely to be covered: • an introduction to recent research on exchange rates, in particular market...

Topics: quantitative measures the degree of cross-country risk sharing, and of the gains from risk sharing, based on micro and macro data; determinants of the degree of risk sharing; comparisons between interregional and international risk sharing; portfolio choices and international risk...

The workshop aims at improving the understanding of the determinants, characteristics and prospects for foreign capital flows into converging European economies, in particular the new EU Member States (NMS). Topics: - Drivers of capital flows in recent years - Capital flows during the crisis -...

The 8th ICAFT is concerned with all aspects of accounting and finance affected by times of rapid social, economic and political change including issues related to the transition from more centrally organised and command-based to more decentralised, market-oriented systems and its implications...