The abrupt end of the low-interest-rate period together with the rise in inflation and the disruptions caused by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine fundamentally change the business environment for financial intermediaries. Technological advances and new climate-related risks also put...

The workshop aims to bring together central bankers and researchers with an interest in macroprudential policy. The conference invites theoretical and empirical contributions on topics including: - Theoretical justifications of macroprudential interventions, - Comparative analysis of...

Topics: - recent developments and longer-term trends in labour supply and human capital in Europe; - determinants of human capital investment; - the design and effects of policy measures aimed at fostering labour supply and human capital investment; - the importance of human capital investment...

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 conference invites submissions of high-quality theoretical or empirical research papers on small business financing and its importance for the real economy. Topics: - Availability of credit for small businesses and firms' competitiveness; - Financial deregulation...

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Circular and return migration - The role of social networks and Diaspora externalities - Remittances, migration and the pattern of trade/FDI - Brain drain - Migration and institutional change - Immigrant integration - Immigration policies

Suitable research topics for paper submissions include the following: - The structure of wages, in particular differentials across countries, regions, sectors, skill, gender and age and the impact of recent economic shocks on such differentials - More generally, issues relating to the dispersion...

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...

Topics: - Macro-financial models linking financial stability and the performance of the economy - Models and tools for the early identification and assessment of systemic risk - Designing instruments for macro-prudential regulation

Paper proposals are invited in any area of labour economics.