The workshop will focus on the changing role of central banks following the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Before the crisis, central banks viewed price stability as their main objective. This manifested itself in the spread of explicit or implicit inflation targeting (IT) regimes among many...

The organising committee of this small, informal conference invites submissions of high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.

Topics: - Financial integration: implications for economic cycles, growth and trade - Capital market depth and efficiency: effects on growth and development - Availability of credit and capital market finance and firms' competitiveness - Financial deregulation and real economic activity (firm...