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: - The role of central bank communication in the conduct of monetary policy and in ensuring financial stability. Is the role of communication in maintaining price stability and financial stability different? What should be communicated with respect to financial stability? How should...

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. Whether the crisis has changed, or should change, our view of central banking, in particular about the degree of...

The objective of the conference is to present state-of-the-art empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical research on household asset accumulation, debt, and consumption behaviour over the life cycle. The focus of the conference is on research that makes extensive use of household...

Topics: quantitative measures the degree of cross-country risk sharing, and of the gains from risk sharing, based on micro and macro data; determinants of the degree of risk sharing; comparisons between interregional and international risk sharing; portfolio choices and international risk...

Auf der Tagung wird der aktuelle Stand der Debatte zur tariflichen Unterbietungskonkurrenz zusammengefasst und auch die deutsche Rechtsprechung unter Bezugnahme auf Art. 2 des ILO-Übereinkommens 87 kritisch hinterfragt. Es wird thematisiert, ob Deutschland seinen mit Ratifikation des...

We invite submissions for the CEPR workshop from interested researchers on any topics within the area of Development Economics. We encourage submissions of papers on economic development from all parts of the developing world -- Africa, Asia, Latin America but also including work on the...

Topics: - Foreign banks, privatization, domestic mergers and the structure of the banking sector - Assessing banks' financial performance and risks in emerging economies - Competition, efficiency and stability of the banking sector - Banks and the rest of the financial industry in emerging...

Topics: - Financial liberalisation and the finance-growth nexus; - Financial linkages and propagation channels of shocks; - Asset price co-movements, bubbles and contagion phenomena; - Financial stability implications of international financial integration and global imbalances; - Global policy...

Paper proposals are invited in any area of labour economics.