With the full support of the Government of Mexico and the Forum’s key Strategic Partners, the meeting will convene key decision-makers from government, industry, civil society and academia. Under the theme “Regional Transformation in a New Global Context”, leaders will shape a strategic...

Topics: 1) Sources of financial frictions: - Sources of liquidity - Reasons of market incompleteness and dysfunctions - Role of banks 2) Financial frictions in macromodels - Financial sector and real economy - Sources and consequences of financial crises - ‘Sudden stops’, financial contagion...

The theme of ESPAnet’s 2010 Annual Conference is the social consequences of the global financial crisis and their differential impacts across Europe. The main questions for consideration include: How is the crisis affecting already existing inequalities? How are different social classes and...

The goal of the Summer Camp is to bring together macroeconomists from around the world with an interest in topics relevant to Latin American economies. This year, we are looking for new papers focusing on two main different topics: a) Modeling financial markets in macroeconomics, and b) Sources...

The main objectives of the conference are to improve the understanding of (i) how natural disasters affect household welfare, and (ii) how policy-makers can overcome the behavioral, political, technical, and operative hurdles involved in disaster risk preventive interventions.