The post-crisis recovery continues to disappoint in advanced and emerging economies alike. Slow growth and low inflation have led to concerns that advanced economies (AEs) might be facing secular stagnation putting greater emphasis on emerging market economies (EMEs) to support global growth....

The event is expected to cover a wide range of topics including: - extreme value theory; - linear and non-linear correlation; - Value-at-Risk; - network analysis and agent-based models; - principles of derivatives pricing with applications to interest rate and credit derivative swaps; and -...

The programme will include policy and academic sessions on the following themes: - Payment choice and global payments - Retail payments in a digital era - faster, cheaper, easier? - User experience, behaviour and trust in retail payments - Innovators, regulators and the competition-cooperation...

This event is an opportunity for practitioners and academics to come together and explore new approaches to the analysis of macro-financial and macroprudential issues. It is anticipated that papers on sectoral modelling, policy regimes and co-ordination issues will be presented.

This event will cover the broad themes: - why is good corporate governance important? - how corporate governance is regulated; - the importance of Board effectiveness in the effective risk management of firms; - management expertise, culture and controls; - the UK approved persons regime and...

Central banks rely increasingly on the empirical analysis of financial markets to analyse the state of the economy and the impact of policy actions. This one-week event will provide a rigorous overview of the foundations of empirical finance and an exposition of selected topics vital to central...

The following topics are likely to be covered: - basic optimisation techniques; - model microfoundations; - models of the business cycle, including models with financial frictions; - simple solution methods; - input data preparation and manipulation; - construction and estimation of small...

The event will aim to discuss the management of various categories of risk faced by retail banks, investment banks and insurance companies, including those generated by macroeconomic, political and social developments. Specific topics are likely to include: - trading risks and hedging, options...

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...

This two-week seminar aims to improve participants’ understanding of current modelling strategies and forecasting techniques. The following topics will be covered: - unit roots, cointegration and error-correction mechanisms; - techniques for modelling unobserved economic components,...