Topics: - The effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy in the zero lower bound economy. - Should monetary policy target an inflation rate above 2% when the economy is at the zero lower bound? - What is the transmission mechanism of unconventional monetary policy on output, interest rate...

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.

The conference will provide a forum to discuss innovative research on long-term growth, the determinants of natural real interest rates, and secular stagnation and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. The Program Committee welcomes papers addressing (but not...

Traditionally, commercial banks have been the focus of central banks' monetary policy. However, shadow banks played key roles in the events leading up to the financial crisis, the near collapse of the financial system during that time, and in the postcrisis recovery policies. Banks' importance...

Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

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.

The Tor Vergata International Conference on Money, Banking and Finance is aimed at exploring the current economic policy debate by focusing on aspects of the financial world. Contributions on the following fields are welcome: - Reforms after the Global Financial Crisis - Theory and Empirics of...