Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

"The purpose of the Forum is to promote the discussion of frontier research on empirical and theoretical issues in international finance, banking and macroeconomics, with a special eye on the relevance for monetary policy. In the wake of financial crises in Europe, the United States and...

Banks have already made progress towards developing a distribution strategy in which different channels are closely integrated. However, true multichannel distribution is hard to achieve and requires significant long-term investment. But if banks do manage to achieve the ideal multidistribution...

Economists and professionals working in related fields are invited to submit theoretical and applied papers in all areas of economics for presentation at the Congress. All participants at EEA-ESEM 2014 must be a member of the European Economic Association or the Econometric Society.

The theme of the 2nd Summer School is "Frontiers of Economic Theory." We plan to hold a few sessions for a selected group of students to present their research.

The Organising Committee now invites contributors to submit full papers in the areas of theoretical and applied economics and econometrics for consideration.

The program will include submitted papers, as well as the 2nd Hurwicz Lecture by Eric Maskin (Harvard University), the Walras-Bowley Lecture by Rafael Repullo (CEMFI), and the Cowles Lecture by Ariel Pakes (Harvard University), and the following semi-plenary sessions: - Incentives -...

This conference is being held in conjunction with the ASSA 2014 Annual Meeting.