This is the fifth annual Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice. Scholars from around the world discuss recent work on issues involving the economics of crime and the criminal justice system. Presenting a series of studies that address pressing policy issues, long-standing problems in...

Astonishing recent progress in numerical optimization presents many opportunities and challenges for modern data analysis and scientific inference. Econometrics and statistics offer a valuable angle from which to study optimization problems and, conversely, operations research offers a...

The event is a combination of lectures on the theory and methods of policy analysis and design, practical problems in modelling and forecasting and computer-based exercises. The following topics are likely to be covered: - techniques for modelling unobserved economic components, state-space...

The topics covered in the event will fit within the following broad themes: - models of financial services regulation including the ‘twin peaks’ model adopted in the United Kingdom; - a judgement-based, forward-looking approach to prudential supervision; - the interplay between...

The topics covered are likely to include: - an overview of aspects of the data justifying an analysis of financial frictions; - different ways of deviating from the frictionless benchmark: - costly state verification - collateral constraints - costly enforcement; - models of financial...

The event will cover both theoretical and empirical analyses of the functioning of the international monetary system. The following topics are likely to be covered: - the interplay between domestic policy frameworks and the international monetary and financial system; - the role of ‘rules of...

The following key topics are likely to be covered: - approaches to business model analysis for banks, insurers and significant investment firms; - using the results of analysis to focus supervisory activity; and - flexible and proportionate approaches to business modelanalysis that can be...

The following topics will be covered: - credit and asset price cycles; - statistical measures of systemic risk: - Value-at-Risk (VaR) - Conditional Value-at-Risk (CoVaR) - Marginal Expected Shortfall (MES); - network models for systemic risk assessment; and - macroeconomic stress testing.

The following topics are likely to be covered: - review a central bank’s balance sheet in the light of monetary operations and risk tolerances; - success criteria: monitoring performance of operational structures; - recent and potential future revisions to the framework; - collateral...

The following topics are likely to be covered: - the econometric modelling and forecasting of inflation and growth; - formulating and using varieties of mechanical, statistical, semi-structural and structural forecasting models; - forecasting at different forecast horizons; - tools for forecast...