The main theme of the conference will be ‘How Has Our View of Central Banking Changed with the Recent Financial Crisis?’ The recent financial crisis has led to a plethora of new questions about the objectives, policy practices and tools of central banks, especially during and after crises....

Topics: 1) Sources of financial frictions: - Sources of liquidity - Reasons of market incompleteness and dysfunctions - Role of banks 2) Financial frictions in macromodels - Financial sector and real economy - Sources and consequences of financial crises - ‘Sudden stops’, financial contagion...

Topics: a. Mark to market accounting b. Opacity of banks’ assets c. The role of credit rating agencies d. Corporate governance, risk taking and disclosure e. Disclosure regulation f. Market discipline and its role during the banking crisis

Topics may include, but are not limited to: • Business cycles and bank credit standards • Macroeconomic conditions, risk taking by banks and procyclicality • Procyclicality of capital requirements and implications for monetary policy • Procyclicality of financial regulation •...

The topic of the 13th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘Financial Supervision in an Uncertain World’. The recent turmoil on global financial markets and the following recession have raised concerns that the current financial supervisory system does not suffice anymore. This can mainly be...

ESSLE is designed to bring together economists in the field from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. It provides a unique opportunity for researchers from different universities and countries to discuss their work in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term...

Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models (DSGE) command wide support among macroeconomists as a modeling methodology. In addition, they are widely used by policy institutions for both policy assessments and forecasting exercises. Nevertheless, there is much less agreement about the details...

The school intends to provide an intensive training course for Ph.D. students and young researchers who are working in the fields of international economics and development. This year it will focus on the main analytical and empirical approaches to the link between international trade and...

The scientific committee invites both theoretical and empirical work related to the following aspects: - Mapping Global Product Trade - Product Heterogeneity and Industry Dynamics - Product Trade, Pricing to Market, and Pass-Through

Topics: • Corporate and small business debt in foreign currency • Currency structure of household liabilities (e.g. mortgages) and assets • Modeling of currency risk • Regulation and supervision of currency risk (banks versus non bank institutions)