Conference Themes: - Measuring asset risk over the cycle - Correlated risks in asset and funding choices - Measuring the quality of capital and bail in capacity - Optimal design of going-concern contingent capital - Prevention versus risk absorption - Asset encumbrance and run risk - Allocation...

Topics: - Stabilisation policies and growth in a low interest rate environment; - The economics of high public debt reconsidered; - Fiscal federalism revisited; - Fiscal rules, fiscal institutions, or both: political economy considerations.

The workshop aims to bring together about 25 researchers from all fields of economics to discuss high quality research with a focus on R&D, innovation and public policy. We aim at a mix of theoretical and empirical studies exploring the determinants of innovation and R&D based growth and the...

CEPR was launched in 1983. We shall mark its 30th anniversary with a two-day conference in London. There will be six themed sessions and two wide-ranging panel sessions. In each of the themed sessions, two academics will present short non-technical papers. Two or three senior current and former...

The conference aims to bring together leading researchers to discuss recent developments in empirical banking research. The organising committee invites submissions of high-quality research papers on banking in Emerging MarketsTopics: - The role of geographical and hierarchical distance in...

The Adam Smith Corporate Finance (ASCF) and Adam Smith Asset Pricing (ASAP) Workshops will take place on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd March 2012 at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

The reform process triggered by the recent financial crisis is gradually making progress. Advances are underway in the area of banking regulation, accounting standards, and market infrastructure (e.g. clearing houses for derivatives, etc.). A new framework for macroprudential policy is also...

The organizers welcome submissions of a theoretical or empirical nature related to the theme of the conference. Suitable topics include (but are not limited to): - Dynamic general equilibrium models with financial intermediaries - Financial intermediaries and boom-bust cycles - Bank capital and...

Topics: - Dynamics of unemployment: How does unemployment, and particularly long-run unemployment, adjust to a slowdown in economic activity? Is there symmetry between upturns and downturns? Have these adjustment mechanisms changed in the current crisis environment? What explains variations of...