The conference will provide a forum for presenting the latest advances in various empirical and theoretical issues. Possible topics include: - Financial market imperfections and business cycle fluctuations - Corporate finance and macroeconomic stability - Credit and the housing market - Banking...

Sylvester Eijffinger (Tilburg University) Topics: 1. Monetary Policy in the EU 2. Fiscal Policy in the EU

The organisers particularly encourage submissions of papers in the following areas: 1) Theory and Techniques - Monte Carlo simulation techniques for modelling and simulating asset returns - Use of contingent claim analysis in balance sheet risk management - Innovations in portfolio optimization...

Session 1: Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) after ten years: what has the EMU brought to consumers and the corporate sector? Prices and quantities Session 2: Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) after ten years: what has the EMU brought to consumers and the corporate sector? The evolution and the...

The themes of the conference will reflect the forces likely to influence future global change and re-shape development agendas once again.

The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged: • Orthodoxy/Mainstream/Heterodoxy. Past and Present Developments • Is there Common Ground for Heterodox Economics? • What Can Macroeconomists Learn From Institutional, Experimental and Post Walrasian Economics? •...

This conference will focus on policy-oriented theoretical and empirical research which is meant to contribute to this debate, based on a careful analysis of existing constraints and relevant goals. Papers dealing with one or more of the following issues are particularly welcome. - Welfare state...

This conference will explore the inter-relationships between migration, immigrant integration, and development. The intent is to bring to the foreground issues that are often lost when we discuss these general topics in isolation from one another. In this way we hope to uncover new aspects of...

Submissions of theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented contributions on all aspects related to liquidity are invited, especially papers covering the following topics: - Market liquidity, funding liquidity and liquidity in payment systems and their interrelations - The role of central banks in...

The conference is organized by the Research Group 'Price, Liquidity, and Credit Risks: Measurement and Distribution', which is funded by the German Research Foundation. The group consists of researchers in financial economics, financial econometrics, and financial mathematics at the Universities...