Topics: - Contributions of bank regulation and supervision to efficient bank resolution, - Are bail-outs a thing of the past? - Has the problem of too-big-to-fail been solved? - What still needs to be done to eliminate the destabilizing link between banks and sovereigns? - The prospects for...

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...

We invite high quality theoretical and empirical papers on the interaction between SMEs’ business decisions, credit conditions and the aggregate economy. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - the cyclicality of credit conditions and its impact on SMEs; - credit and SME dynamics...

In response to the financial crisis of 2007-2009, a number of countries are currently reconsidering and changing the setup of their financial supervisory system. In a large number of countries, central banks will be given a more prominent role, in micro- and especially in macro-prudential...

We welcome especially contributions that analyze the interaction between microeconomic financial structures and macroeconomic policies and stability objectives. We seek to attract high quality theoretical and empirical work around five main themes: 1. Contagion 2. Stability effects of...