Theme: “Cities and regions in a changing Europe: challenges and prospects” The core theme of the conference is devoted to the new challenges that cities and regions are facing in the changing European landscape. The aftermath of the economic crisis has created a completely new environment...

Recent events have underlined the importance of cash as a refuge, as cash in circulation peaked at the height of the financial crisis. Since then, demand has remained strong and there has been no sign of repatriation of those banknotes. At the same time, the infrastructure of the cash cycle is...

Topics: - Inequality measurements - Economic growth, inequalities and poverty - Polarization, fragmentation, discrimination and horizontal inequalities - Economic and social mobility - Constitution of the middle classes - Poverty, vulnerability and vertical inequalities - Inequalities of...

The conference program highlights are as follows: - Pascal Saint-Amans (recently appointed Director of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration), Terrance McAuley (Assistant Commissioner, Compliance Services Branch, Canada Revenue Agency), and Michael F. Mundaca (of Ernst & Young...

1. Monetary policy 2. Fiscal policy and monetary policy, Pensions 3. Monetary Theory, Prices and Money demand 4. Banking risk and stability, prudential regulations 5. Banking competition, mergers and costs, Interest rates 6. Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance 7. Credit, asset prices and...

The Benchmarking Forum includes three workshops in which the impact of industry-specific SWOT analyses on economic strategies of regions will be major discussion points: - Regions as Technology and Life Sciences Locations - Metropolitan Regions with Financial Centres - Governance (policies) and...

The themes of the conference are: - Financial Institutions and Markets - Corporate Finance and Governance - Financial stability and the macro economy - Finance and growth