Theme: Advances in Forecasting (EC)² is a series of annual international conferences on research in quantitative economics and econometrics, launched in 1990. The acronym (EC)² stands for European Conferences of the Econom[etr]ics Community. Its main aim is to maintain and extend an adequate...

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

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: • Econometric methodology: new approaches to the finance-growth nexus • Banking development vs. financial market development • Volatility, financial development and economic growth • Finance, the distribution of income, the size distribution of firms and innovation • Financial...