In reply to the financial crisis, "Great Recession" and sovereign debt crisis, many central banks have pursued ultra-easy and far reaching unconventional monetary policies for several years. Yields on various bond calsses - including euro area sovereign bond yields since the sovereign debt...

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...

Preliminary Programme: Keynote Session Keynote 1: Contagion and Spillovers – the Recent European Experience and the Way Forward Keynote 2: Elections as Confidence Multipliers in Emerging Democracies Session 1: Real Economy Channels of Crisis Transmission Session 2: Financial Sector...

Topics: - Banking Sector Development and Financial Deepening in Russia - The Role of Ownership for the Performance of Russian Banks - Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Russia