This conference will provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues regarding alternative options central banks face when defining their price stability objective. Research papers on the optimal level of inflation; on the zero bound on nominal...

We encourage research on the importance of behavioural biases and expectations formation and behavioural bi-ases for business cycle fluctuations and invite papers on the implications of these biases and of alternative expec-tations formation mechanisms for modelling business cycle fluctuations...

Topics: Auction pricing, biased price perceptions, bundle pricing, cross-cultural price perceptions, demographic effects on price responses, elasticity estimation, fairness in pricing, information processing of price, price interaction in the marketing mix, international pricing, Internet...

This conference aims to take stock of the current knowledge about the role played by global integration in influencing the behavior of domestic prices. Papers in the fields of international macroeconomics and international trade are encouraged. Both empirical and calibrated theoretical studies...

The objective of the conference is to further our understanding from an empirical perspective of developments in China and other transition economies (e.g. Russia, CIS, Eastern Europe, Vietnam) in the areas of the measurement of growth, productivity and other macroeconomic aggregates, as well as...

Referatsthemen: "Anatomie des Aufschwungs" "Finanzmärkte: Ein Konjunkturkiller?" "Arbeitsmarkt: Eine Wachstumsbremse?" "Wirtschaftspolitik: Destabilisator oder Wachstumsmotor?" [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] Diese Website existiert nicht mehr.

Papers that address the following issues are particularly welcome: a) new developments in understanding inflation dynamics b) detecting and modelling changes in inflation c) implications of a changing inflation process for forecasting To foster exchange between academic and policy oriented...

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Topics: 1. comparing new methodologies for measuring business cycles and cyclical convergence 2. studies of the coherence (or divergence) of business cycles in practice 3. studies of convergence “clubs” 4. factors which influence convergence (eg globalisation, market liberalisation or...