Papers that examine competition between financial intermediaries, the risk taking of individual banks, the stability of the financial sector and its regulation are of particular interest. The workshop aims at linking young economists interested in related topics. It provides a platform to...

Every year, the Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference brings together economists from the academia, the public and the private sectors, think tanks, and other constituencies to discuss innovative research in economics and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and...

Surveys on household expectations are a prime source for supporting the analysis of financial stability, monetary policy transmission and the effects of central bank communication. The Bundesbank and Banque de France conference will bring together researchers from academia, central banks, and...

The Research Center SAFE at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Deutsche Bundesbank are organizing the 6th SAFE Asset Pricing Workshop to stimulate the discussion of current developments in the field. Papers in all areas of asset pricing are invited.

Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. Topics: - changes in wage, price and output dynamics and correlations over the business cycle - impact of medium-run macro and financial trends on the natural rate of interest and the output gap hysteresis effects and implications for monetary...

Inflation targeting has delivered low, stable inflation and substantial macroeconomic stability over the last several decades (financial crisis aside). But the last ten years have proved challenging for monetary authorities. Output has been below pre-crisis trends for a sustained period,...

The conference deliberations will deal with the following themes: - Cash: inefficient, outdated and a facilitator of crime? - Cash: still used vastly, not at the heart of current low inflation rates and keeper of civil rights? - Central Bank Digital Money and e-Krona: the future?

The 99th KKG discusses changes, chances and challenges of the digital (r)evolution. Is the digital transformation merely the most recent form of technological change that allows for further productivity and welfare gains, leaving well-established economic principles in place? Or is this time...

The Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, parliamentarians, private sector executives, representatives from civil society organizations and academics...