Topics: - Impact of DLT technology and fintech on central bank policy and operations; - Impact of DLT technology and fintech on banking, financial markets and financial market infrastructures; - Central bank digital currencies; - Trusted digital identities and financial innovation.

The four days conference consists of seven programs and each program will meet for three sessions. Three papers will be presented for each session with assigned discussants and time for open discussion. Topics: International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking; Corporate Finance; Investment...

Entrepreneurs appear to borrow largely against their near-term revenues, even when their investment has a longer horizon. In this paper, we develop a model of credit horizons. A question of particular concern to us is whether persistently low interest rates can stifle economic activity. With...

This year's conference is devoted to the challenges related to the responsible economic and business growth. The concept of responsible growth is getting increasingly topical to ensure more prosperous and more equitable future for the next generations. The objective of the conference is to...

The goal of the conference is to bring together participants for an exchange of views on topics of relevance to the Commission. Topic areas: corporate finance, market microstructure, financial intermediation, and asset management.

The PIER Tools Workshop consists of three six-hour mini-courses, nine hours of practical training sessions (labs), two distinguished guest lectures, the Penn Faculty Lecture, and a half-day, practice-oriented mini-workshop. The courses cover nonlinear models of credit booms, financial crises and...

Topics: - Theories that can help identify key drivers of the observed joint dynamics of growth and inequality; - Comparative analysis of structural change across developed economies and its consequence for growth and inequality; - The role of policies, such as wage compression, retraining, and...

The forum will focus on the legal and economic issues involved in the advance of technology into the financial markets. Various legislative proposals and regulatory initiatives (including on BigTech and Mixed Activity Groups) have recently been launched at a European level to enhance the...

Co-author: Luhang Wang (Xiamen University) . In China, the relative wages of high-skilled and low-skilled workers display huge variation across different regions. We examine whether financial intermediation development can explain such variation. Conceptually, better-developed financial...

Co-authors: Yiping Huang (Peking University), Han Qiu (Bank for International Settlements) and Changhua Yu (Peking University) Through the lens of a unique dataset covering the full borrowing history of sampled firms from both BigTech and traditional bank lenders in China, we compare the...