Topics: - the evolution of bank business models and risk-taking preferences in response to regulatory change (Basel III) - the implications of the zero bound problem for (SME) lending choices - the existence of multiple policy objectives and private vs government lending - the challenges...

The objective of the conference is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household financial behaviour and on how this is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. Topics: - Patterns of asset...

In many European economies, the recovery following the financial crisis has proven either sluggish or non-existent. Many countries suffer from persistently high levels of unemployment, coupled with sluggish credit dynamics and stretched fiscal budgets. These outcomes put pressure on policymakers...

This year’s conference will focus on Efficiently Inefficient Markets.

Topics: - Cross border bank lending, domestic credit, and the current account - Domestic and cross-border response of bank credit and leverage to national monetary policies and global liquidity - Econometric issues in modeling the current account, in particular in currency unions. - The role of...

The conference will provide a forum to discuss innovative research on long-term growth, the determinants of natural real interest rates, and secular stagnation and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. The Program Committee welcomes papers addressing (but not...

We now invite submissions for this conference from interested researchers on any topic within the area of Development Economics.

The workshop will bring together researchers who work on global supply chains and trade policy, theoretically and empirically.

Topics: - cross-border financial linkages and monetary policy; - trade integration, financial integration and the propagation of and adjustment to shocks; - sovereign risk, financial frictions and monetary policy; - standard and non-standard monetary policies in multi-sector/multi-country...

DIW Berlin and CEPR will host the conference on the role of the European Central Bank and its bond purchasing programme OMT. The Conference is thought as a forum to discuss the arguments pro and con and also to point out ways out of the crisis.