The conference will focus on the new global challenges for international fiscal and monetary policy. Just three years after the recent pandemic, policy makers are confronted with a new set of global challenges. These include increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, regional conflicts and climate...

TOPICS We solicit theoretical and empirical papers on the interactions between sovereign bond markets and conventional and unconventional monetary policy, regulation, fiscal policy, foreign exchange, and the macroeconomy in inflationary times. Topics of interest include (but are not limited...

Topic: Banking and financial services This year’s conference devotes specific attention to the international role of the euro. Other sessions will focus on the challenges to EU banking and capital markets in the digital age.

Topics of interest: - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of the monetary policy and: the pricing of financial assets, the risk taking by banks, the spillover effects to other developed and emerging markets, the financial market liquidity. - Basel III capital and liquidity ratio...

The aim of the workshop is to exchange views and share experiences related to the emerging concept of macroprudential stance, i.e. the approaches used by policymakers to formulate the macroprudential actions they take to achieve financial stability. The focus will be on the European Union and...

The conference will focus on positive and normative studies of social insurance programmes including unemployment insurance, disability insurance, social security, and medical insurance. A large and increasing fraction of government budgets are allocated to these programmes. Their design varies...

The main theme of this year’s conference is "Real Estate, Financial Stability, and the Macroeconomy". A non-exhaustive list of potential topics: - Real estate "bubbles": identification and consequences for financial stability - Regulation of real estate financing, such as macroprudential...

The event is the result of interdisciplinary and interregional cooperation, and it presently promotes the analysis of Chinese development in the areas of culture, economics and technology in the context of Chinese and European traditions. This year’s BHF will focus on the topics Green Economy,...

Topics: - the nexus between the quantity and the quality of growth; - key indicators of growth quality (e.g. growth variability, growth differentials across countries, environmental sustainability, income and wealth inequality); - links between indicators of growth quality and household...

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...