Each spring, thousands of government officials, journalists, civil society organizations, and invited participants from the academia and private sectors, gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. At the heart of the gathering are...

The theme of this year’s conference is “Investing in International Markets”. We invite academic paper submissions for the conference that examine the decision to invest in international markets by corporations, institutional or retail investors. As in past years, we aim to bring together a...

Each Spring, thousands of government officials, the private sector, journalists, academia, civil society representatives, and other interested observers gather in Washington DC for the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF. At the heart of the gathering are meetings of the joint World...

Over the past few decades ties between financial markets worldwide have become stronger as a result of developments in IT, the liberalization of financial markets and increased cross-border competition among financial intermediaries. The developments in the payment and securities settlement...

Topics: all areas of Finance related to International Real Estate Securities.

The conference offers an excellent opportunity for researchers to present their original works on issues related to global interdependence and the decoupling-recoupling phenomenon. The conference’s general theme is linkages between national economies with a special focus on the dependence...

Possible sessions could include, but are not limited to, the following: - International capital flows - International portfolio allocation - International portfolio diversification - Global flight to quality - Liquidity and capital flows - Investing in emerging economies - Capital market...

The conference is intended to provide a forum for discussing innovative research in economics, undertaken by both IMF staff and by outside economists, and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) will...

The Munich Economic Summit is an initiative aimed at bringing together academic scholars and decision-makers in politics, industry and finance to discuss vital European issues. Programme: Panel 1) The Financial Crisis and Globalisation – What Linkages? Panel 2) Managing the Crisis Panel 3)...

The aim of this conference is to add to the debate on the political economy aspects of the ongoing global financial crisis, and to stimulate research in this area. Topics that will be discussed include: regulatory capture and lobbying, bailout negotiations, and consumer protection.