Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

The current macroeconomic environment of low interest rates, low inflation and (in some cases) low growth has been going on for a prolonged period of time in many advanced countries, spurring a debate on both its causes and its policy implications: Why is inflation falling short of central...

Due to the COVID-19 situation, the FRIC’20 Conference on Financial Frictions has been postponed to August 2021 and the next upcoming FRIC conference is therefore the FRIC’21 Conference on Financial Frictions, which will take place on August 20, 2021.