Topics: - Accounting and regulatory compliance; - The continuing challenges and opportunities presented by the adoption of IFRS, and other international standardization and convergence projects; - Auditing and oversight of the accounting profession; - Effect of regulation on management behaviour,...

Topics: - the evolution of bank business models and risk-taking preferences in response to regulatory change (Basel III) - the implications of the zero bound problem for (SME) lending choices - the existence of multiple policy objectives and private vs government lending - the challenges...

We are pleased to announce details of the latest EABCN Training School; a three-day course entitled "Term structure models and the zero lower bound". Dr Jens Christensen will teach the course. Jens Christensen is a senior economist in the Financial Research Section of the Federal Reserve Bank of...

This year’s conference will focus on Efficiently Inefficient Markets.

Topics: - cross-border financial linkages and monetary policy; - trade integration, financial integration and the propagation of and adjustment to shocks; - sovereign risk, financial frictions and monetary policy; - standard and non-standard monetary policies in multi-sector/multi-country...

DIW Berlin and CEPR will host the conference on the role of the European Central Bank and its bond purchasing programme OMT. The Conference is thought as a forum to discuss the arguments pro and con and also to point out ways out of the crisis.

ESSET 2011 will be devoted to theoretical perspectives on financial crises. Focus sessions in the first week (4-8 July) will be organised around the theme of "Asset Pricing, Financial Stability, and the Crisis" . Focus sessions in the second week (11-15 July) will be organised around the theme...

The main theme of the conference will be ‘How Has Our View of Central Banking Changed with the Recent Financial Crisis?’ The recent financial crisis has led to a plethora of new questions about the objectives, policy practices and tools of central banks, especially during and after crises....

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...

All topics and methodological approaches within the broad field of finance will be considered. The Doctoral Tutorial will take place on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 in Frankfurt as part of the 37th EFA Annual Meeting.