We invite theoretical and empirical research aimed at improving our understanding of the sources of fluctuations, their propagation, and their implications for macro policy in today’s globalised environment. Topics of special interest include, but are not restricted to: - Trade linkages,...

The objective of the conference is to verify and assess the process of the building of market economies in Europe after 25 years, including lessons learnt from transition and focusing on the challenges lying ahead. Conference panels: - The foundation: monetary and exchange rate policy - Bricks...

Program: Session A: Wage Setting and Price-Wage Interactions Session B: Labor Market Modeling, Macro-Interactions and Policies Session C: Implications for Monetary Policy Book Launch: Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession Special Session: IZA World of Labor Session D: Labor...

Topics: - Fair value accounting - Loan loss provisioning models, banks' practices, and pro-cyclicality - Information disclosure, market discipline and bank behaviour Submissions that deal with other research questions pertinent to bank accounting and its interaction with regulatory rules are...

The Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) each year bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty...

We offer six tracks at our conferences: Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Education, Energy Policy, Engineering Education, and Health Sciences. The Business & Economics track provides a forum for faculty to present their research on any accounting, CIS/CMS, economics, finance, management,...

Topics: - Mismatch of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the labor market; - Cognitive and non-cognitive skills and labor productivity; - The evolution of cognitive and non-cognitive skills over the life cycle; - Policy interventions and the formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills.

This conference is designed to provide a forum for debate on how to achieve sustainable financial stability. The discussion will focus on the long-term effects of changing economic conditions, additional regulatory requirements and new macro prudential policies on the financial system.

The program encourages interaction between talented PhD students and labor economists located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. On each of the five days of the program a leading labor economist will present his/her frontier research. Students will be given the opportunity to...