The conference brings together leading academics, central bankers and bank supervisors, and features keynote speakers Darrell Duffie (Stanford University) and Richard Berner (US Office of Financial Research). Questions for discussion will include: - How do global interconnections arise, and what...

The workshop will focus on the changing role of central banks following the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Before the crisis, central banks viewed price stability as their main objective. This manifested itself in the spread of explicit or implicit inflation targeting (IT) regimes among many...

The organising committee of this small, informal conference invites submissions of high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.

Topics: - financial market incentives and bank funding, - International implications of the evolving models of funding, - the impact of different types of bank funding on the supply of corporate lending (including SME lending) and investment, - corporate bond issuance as a complement/substitute...

Topics: - Financial integration: implications for economic cycles, growth and trade - Capital market depth and efficiency: effects on growth and development - Availability of credit and capital market finance and firms' competitiveness - Financial deregulation and real economic activity (firm...