The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the worldwide development and their weight will increase further . They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments and policies in the region. This...

Submissions of theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects related to systemic risk, spillovers, systemically important financial institutions, changes in financial regulation including the creation of a systemic risk supervisor are invited, especially papers covering the following...

Topics: • What are the different sources of (il)liquidity, and how are they related? • How can liquidity risk be measured? • The risks arising from liquidity spirals, and how to contain them. • The consequences of aggregate liquidity shortages for bank liquidity management. • Opacity...

Programm: - Excess Global Savings, Zero Interest Rates and the Confluence of Fiscal and Monetary Policy - Global Interest Rates, Monetary Policy, and Currency Returns - The Domestric and International Effects of Interstate U.S. Banking - Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S....

Specific questions are, among others: • Measuring interconnectedness of financial institutions at the national and in-ternational level. • Consequences of financial integration for financial stability and regulation. • Bank regulation and its impact on bank behaviour, competition and...

CEPR and the Deutsche Bundesbank are jointly organizing a one and a half day workshop focusing on the macroeconomics of global interdependence. Papers are being sought that focus on the following topics from the perspective of global integration: · Global monetary system and financial...

The workshop will provide a forum for the presentation of recent theoretical and empirical contributions regarding the role of real-time and survey data in forecasting macroeconomic and financial variables. The recent period of heightened economic and financial uncertainty has demonstrated the...