The conference will focus on on the policies and politics of austerity and on the various aspects of the Greek crisis. Papers dealing with similar experiences in other countries that may bring light on the effects of austerity policies in Greece will also be considered. The conference will be...

Topics: - Stress test - Assessment of quality of capital - Risk retention - QM (qualified mortgages) and QRM (qualified residential mortgages) - Scenario analysis - Liquidity risk measurement - Reverse stress test - Short term liquidity versus long term funding - Sustainability management -...

We invite theoretical and empirical research aimed at improving our understanding of the sources of fluctuations, their propagation, and their implications for macro policy in today’s globalised environment. Topics of special interest include, but are not restricted to: - Trade linkages,...

The topics of the conference are the origins and consequences of financial crises as well as possible solutions to prevent and overcome such crises. Both of these topics will be evaluated especially from an Austrian Economics perspective. Besides presentation and discussion of more than thirty...

Conference Topics: - recent developments in heterogeneous-agent modeling; - the empirics of heterogeneity: micro data collection and model testing; - effects of monetary and fiscal policies in heterogeneous-agent economies; - macroeconomic drivers of inequality.

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...

The main objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for central bankers, market participants and researchers in the field of economics and finance to discuss the most recent developments in access to finance of small and medium-sized companies. Topics: - The role of banks in financing...

A short workshop is being held in Vienna on the morning of 11 December 2014 in Vienna to tie in with the 2nd SUERF/UniCredit & Universities Foundation Research Prize on the subject of "Reregulation of the financial sector – economic consequences, costs and benefits". The workshop will feature...

The aim of this 2-day conference is to cover a broad range of related topics, both theoretical and empirical, in international finance (including the macro-finance literature). The conference will in particular be devoted to recent advances in both theoretical and empirical analysis of financial...

This Conference aims to: - Analyze the consequences of the Global Financial Crisis and associated socio-economic changes for the future of social security. - Identify the new demographic context encompassing the challenges of an evolving life-cycle and consequences of increasing migration. -...