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...

Conference papers will be concerned with all areas of the application of economics to the arts, heritage, media, cultural industries, cultural policy and related areas. Topics: - Art Markets and Cultural Consumption - Creative Clusters and Urban Development - Cultural Entrepreneurship and...

Topics: - Art Markets and Cultural Consumption - Creative Clusters and Urban Development - Cultural Entrepreneurship and Business - Cultural Heritage and Cultural Tourism - Cultural Policy and Arts Institutions - Culture, Globalization and Language - Economic of Copyright and the Cultural...

Topics may include, but are not limited to: • Business cycles and bank credit standards • Macroeconomic conditions, risk taking by banks and procyclicality • Procyclicality of capital requirements and implications for monetary policy • Procyclicality of financial regulation •...

In the wake of the global economic slowdown and its effects on many of the region’s countries, it is more important now than ever for the public and private sectors to meet to engage in debate around the big questions for the region including how the global slowdown will affect CEE, access to...