Among the topics which could be addressed are · cost functions of payment and settlement operators · costs of fragmentation and efficiency implications of unifying payment systems · pricing strategies of payment services and their welfare implications · consolidation in the payments industry...

The ‘New Consensus’, around independent central banks and the use of short-term interest rates as the key instrument of monetary policy, by no means exhausts the range of modern central bank activities or the issues that financial markets pose for the newly consensual monetary...

Getting an accurate picture of poverty and inequality trends and patterns in the world’s most populous country is central to understanding changes in global inequality and poverty – these alter significantly when China is included or excluded. China has achieved dramatic improvements in...

The two-day conference will span a broad range of topics, including growth, trade and finance for development; poverty and inequality; strategies for poverty reduction; conflict; and economic policy-making for development. Presentations will deal not only with current research issues but will...

The purpose of the workshop is to promote the stimulation and dissemination of experimental economics research in Finland. To this end, the workshop includes keynote lectures by internationally distinguished specialists in the field. It will also provide PhD students and researchers from Finland...

The aim of this UACES study group is to analyse a specific set of macroeconomic policies in selected Eastern European countries not covered by the current EU Enlargement process. Specifically, the aim is to concentrate on the major CIS (Community of Independent States) countries: Belarus,...