The recent financial crisis has illustrated the importance of the linkages that connect financial systems and economies around the globe. This conference is aimed at characterizing recent global shocks, understanding the transmission mechanism of these shocks, and identifying appropriate policy...

Submissions in other areas of risk management, banking supervision and financial stability are also welcome. 1. Causes of and lessons from the financial crisis 2. Crisis resolution and implications for the design and stability of the financial system and regulation

The topic of the 12th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘The Evolving Financial System and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy'. The structure of the financial system has changed considerably in recent years in at least three ways.

Topics: • Corporate and small business debt in foreign currency • Currency structure of household liabilities (e.g. mortgages) and assets • Modeling of currency risk • Regulation and supervision of currency risk (banks versus non bank institutions)

This course develops a theoretical framework for the analysis of financial market liquidity and asset pricing organized around the principle of balance sheet spillover effects of leveraged financial institutions. The course begins with the theoretical framework for pricing assets in an...

Papers submitted may be in any of the following areas related to: Monetary policy; Fiscal policy and monetary policy, Pensions; Monetary Theory, Prices and Money demand; Banking risk and stability, prudential regulations; Banking competition, mergers and costs, Interest rates; Corporate Finance...

Financial stability is emerging as a distinct policy function of central banks, requiring its own scholarship separate from, but related to, monetary policy or bank supervision. One element of financial stability is to understand the benefits of and potential risks posed by new financial...

We welcome high quality submissions - theoretical or empirical - on the topics of banking and financial intermediation more generally.