We encourage papers relating to conference’s general topic, and more specifically, although not exclusively, on the following themes : - History of the crisis, comparisons with past crises - Financialisation - Nature and efficiency of central bank operations - Role of the State - How can we...

Price formation in marketing channels is of considerable interest for those involved in these channels but also for public authorities. For instance, farmers frequently protest against intermediaries, and, more specifically, against retailers. They often accuse those players of not (or...

Scholars and PhD students are invited to submit papers on the following themes: - Global imbalances and current world financial crisis; - System risks of banking and other financial institutions; - Causes, consequences and lessons of the current and past crises; - The rise of economic...

Session I. - Volatility in Equilibrium: Asymmetries and Dynamic Dependencies - Inference on Sets in Finance - How Useful are No-Arbitrage Restrictions for Forecasting the Term Structure of Interest Rates? Session II. - High Frequency Statistics with Irregularly Spaced Observations - Dissecting...

Das Ausmaß der gegenwärtigen Finanzmarktkrise hat direkte Vermögenswerte in unglaublicher Höhe vernichtet: Die Schätzungen reichen dabei von rund 1,4 Billionen Dollar (IWF) bis zu 2,8 Billionen Dollar (Britische Notenbank). Betroffen waren zuallererst Banken, Versicherungen, Aktienwerte...

Two themes will dominate the conference : - The euro, financial integration within and outside the euro area, - Euro area macroeconomics adjustments, asymmetries within and autonomy with respect to the world business cycle. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's...

Session 1: Commodities as an asset class Session 2: Financial investors and commodity market dynamics Session 3: Energy markets in Europe – state of play, future prospects and implications for financial markets Session 4: Oil revenues: Role and management of sovereign wealth funds, and...

The objective of the conference is to further our understanding from an empirical perspective of developments in China and other transition economies (e.g. Russia, CIS, Eastern Europe, Vietnam) in the areas of the measurement of growth, productivity and other macroeconomic aggregates, as well as...

Papers that address the following issues are particularly welcome: a) new developments in understanding inflation dynamics b) detecting and modelling changes in inflation c) implications of a changing inflation process for forecasting To foster exchange between academic and policy oriented...