The conference covers a broad range of themes related to challenges and advancements in understanding the monetary transmission mechanism. It seeks to bring together recent contributions in this area of research, including studies with strong theoretical basis as well as empirical...

Topics: - Challenges for monetary policy strategies and operations, - The future of financial globalization, - Financial reform and prospects for a renewed international financial architecture, - Are there limits to the relative size of the financial sector? - What future for the New Keynesian...

The special areas of interest of the conference are: - determinants of migration, - labour migration after EU enlargement and its impact on the labour markets of the sending and the receiving countries, - macroeconomic effects of migration (remittances, balance of payments, economic growth,...