Due to the COVID-19 situation, there is uncertainty surrounding travel restrictions and holding face-to-face events safely in October. Therefore, the organisers have decided to postpone the Third BoE, CEPR, Imperial,

The workshop organizers invite researchers to submit papers covering issues in all areas linking finance and politics. Topics: Political economy of banking; Electoral cycles and banks’ behavior; Political systems and financial crises; Political connections of firms; Political uncertainty and...

The ‘New Consensus’, around independent central banks and the use of short-term interest rates as the key instrument of monetary policy, by no means exhausts the range of modern central bank activities or the issues that financial markets pose for the newly consensual monetary...