The seminar intends to take a fresh look at agricultural insurance markets in Europe, their up to date designs and commodities covered and how these affect farmer adoption and actual levels of risk reduction. It also investigates the role of public policy in the provision of agricultural...

The workshop will take place in Amsterdam and will have an international audience from universities, central banks and international policy organizations. It will bring together experts directly involved in research on the financial cycle, with a view to discussing insights, challenges and...

This year’s conference will focus on banking and money markets.

The Conference will focus on the effects and policy implications of balance sheets misalignments for the EU economies. The financial crisis brought into light that balance sheets are not neutral: their size and composition matter for the response of the economy to shocks, for the impact of...

Conference Themes: - Measuring asset risk over the cycle - Correlated risks in asset and funding choices - Measuring the quality of capital and bail in capacity - Optimal design of going-concern contingent capital - Prevention versus risk absorption - Asset encumbrance and run risk - Allocation...