The conference will bring together academic, central bank and other financial sector economists working in areas of macroeconomics and finance in which Niels Thygesen (who will turn 80 on 13 December) has been and still is active.

We welcome papers from all fields related to Life Cycle choices, including papers dealing with theoretical and empirical issues relating to topics such as: non-consumption and saving decisions with standard and non-standard preferences, purchases of durable consumption items, housing decisions,...

The workshop is aimed at bringing together scholars involved with various aspects of banking in emerging markets, including but not limited to those of Central and Eastern Europe, CIS countries, Latin America and China. The organizing committee welcomes submissions of both empirical and...

Topics: - China’s banking sector and its developments - China’s capital markets - Financing of investments in China and the role of financial markets in it - Potential for cross-border capital flows and capital controls - Sequencing of liberalization steps and reforms

Preliminary Course Title: International Financial Integration: Determinants of, and Welfare/Productivity Gains from. Empirical Estimation. Presenter: Bent E. Sørensen, Lay Professor of International Economics, University of Houston and CEPR. Background discussion: Investors all over the world...

The workshop organizers invite researchers to submit papers covering issues in all areas of banking related to emerging markets. Possible topics include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following: - Financial systems and economic development - Institutional underpinnings of financial...