The workshop aims to bring together central bankers and researchers with an interest in macroprudential policy. The conference invites theoretical and empirical contributions on topics including: - Theoretical justifications of macroprudential interventions, - Comparative analysis of...

The workshop aims to bring together about 25 researchers from all fields of economics to discuss high quality research with a focus on R&D, innovation and public policy. We aim at a mix of theoretical and empirical studies exploring the determinants of innovation and R&D based growth and the...

Topics: - recent developments and longer-term trends in labour supply and human capital in Europe; - determinants of human capital investment; - the design and effects of policy measures aimed at fostering labour supply and human capital investment; - the importance of human capital investment...

The workshop will focus on the changing role of central banks following the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Before the crisis, central banks viewed price stability as their main objective. This manifested itself in the spread of explicit or implicit inflation targeting (IT) regimes among many...

Topics: - International adjustment dynamics - Current account imbalances and international capital flows - Global financial crises - Open-economy macroeconomic models - Exchange rates - International dimensions of monetary and fiscal policy - Sovereign risk

The workshop will give researchers and central bankers the opportunity to discuss theoretical work, empirical findings and policy implications related to cross-border banking. Topics: - the role of internationally active banks in the global economy - the effects of crossborder banking on the...

The Adam Smith Corporate Finance (ASCF) and Adam Smith Asset Pricing (ASAP) Workshops will take place on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd March 2012 at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Suitable research topics for paper submissions include the following: - The structure of wages, in particular differentials across countries, regions, sectors, skill, gender and age and the impact of recent economic shocks on such differentials - More generally, issues relating to the dispersion...

Topics: - Dynamics of unemployment: How does unemployment, and particularly long-run unemployment, adjust to a slowdown in economic activity? Is there symmetry between upturns and downturns? Have these adjustment mechanisms changed in the current crisis environment? What explains variations of...