Topics: - Anatomy of a credit crunch: how does it start, how does it end? - The macroeconomics of financial market liquidity - The interaction of balance sheet constraints and the macroeconomy - The conduct and operation of monetary policy in a credit crunch - Modelling credit crunches and...

Theoretical and empirical papers from a variety of areas are welcome. Examples of topics that would be of interest include: Endogenous Fluctuations and Growth, Asset Pricing from a General Equilibrium Perspective, Heterogeneous Agents Models, Depressions and Crises, Dynamics of the Income...

Papers are being sought that focus on the following topics from the perspective of global integration: • Monetary unions: theory and historical experience; • Current account and international portfolio dynamics; • International risk sharing; theory and evidence; • Financial and currency...