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 IMP's approach offers a suitable response to the growing challenges in the field of economic sciences stemming from the globalization and increasing complexity of business life. Just as the global commercial problems are often solved at the regional or local level, theoretical or...

The professional objectives of organizing this meeting are similar to those of the previous symposia: to provide a forum for an international exchange of ideas on various aspects of inventories. Papers on macro- and microeconomics, econometrics, economic policy, business, management 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.