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 conference will focus on how key differences in the fundamentals between the U.S. and the EU – in particular, the degree of coordination among the union member states and the aging of the population – contribute a great deal to our understanding of observed policy differences between...

Empirical Methods in Money Macro - Maik Wolters (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) This course deals with the analysis of dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium models. The focus of this course is on methodological aspects related to the analysis of business cycle models. In particular we...

The conference seeks to explore the interaction of fiscal and monetary policy, particularly but not exclusively in monetary unions. Conference topics: - challenges of a single monetary policy with decentralised fiscal policies, - the impact of fiscal policies on prices and output, - the impact...

The workshop focuses on the empirical modelling of major transmission channels of financial market shocks using the global vector autoregressive (GVAR) framework. Understanding financial market interdependencies during times of significant monetary accommodation remains a key issue in current...

Für das anstehende Jahrestreffen in Chemnitz werden zwei gesellschaftspolitisch hochrelevante Schwerpunkte ausgewählt, für die um Beiträge gebeten wird: 1. Demographischer Wandel in Deutschland und Europa 2. Bevölkerungsentwicklung weltweit

This conference calls for contributions from activists and artists in a variety of formats such as blogs, radio programmes, video clips and performances on the following themes (though these are by no means exhaustive): - Between Crisis and Change: Feminism, Living Well and Conviviality (Sumak...

Die 8. Nutzerkonferenz widmet sich der Untersuchung der Sozialstruktur und des sozialen Wandels in Deutschland. Wir laden ein, auf der Basis von Mikrozensusdaten gewonnene Forschungsergebnisse vorzustellen und gemeinsam zu diskutieren. Darüber hinaus ist die Konferenz ein Forum für den...

The objective of the conference is to assess the role of financial regulation in competition among financial services providers in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Topics of interest include: international differences in financial sector regulation; regulatory arbitrage; regulatory...

The conference presents recent research on the labor market prospects of older workers. Theoretical and empirical work from different disciplines – in particular economics, sociology and psychology – is welcome. The scientific committee encourages in particular submissions of papers on the...