This inaugural meeting of the Behavioural Workshop will seek contributions from areas which include while not being limited to the following issues • The construction of mental frames and heuristics to guide risk management of structured finance products, securitised debt and other...

Recent years have seen an increasing use in economics and finance of models employing large datasets, involving the estimation of large number of parameters. The severe computational problems that these models involve have partly motivated the huge body of contributions on stationary and non...

Contributions are welcomed on the following themes: • Health and welfare at the local and regional scale • Happiness and wellbeing: definitions and indicators • Poverty, exclusion and wellbeing • Social impacts of housing • The personal, social and financial costs of housing •...

A primary function of any central bank is to maintain public confidence in the currency. The objective of this workshop is to discuss how the central bank achieves this, including efficient distribution and availability of all denominations, and the physical quality of the notes themselves...

Conference Programme: - Chief Risk Officer’s Perspective - Stress Testing in Central Banks - Reputational Risk and the Implications for Business Reporting - Accounting Standard and Financial Reporting - Globalisation and Free Market Fundamentalists - Accounting Research in a Complex Financial...

The following topics are likely to be covered: • an introduction to recent research on exchange rates, in particular market microstructure models and the new open economy macroeconomic paradigm; • aspects of foreign-exchange reserve management; • exchange rates and the transmission...

Topics: - Understand the basic principles and backgrounds of Islamic finance - Understand how Islamic finance can help you and your organization - Learn about the opportunities for you in Islamic Finance - Identify practical steps to market entry

The seminar will focus on a wide range of financial stability issues. The topics covered in the event will fit within the following broad themes: • definition of financial stability, and the role of the Bank of England in the UK tripartite framework; • identification and assessment of key...

The following topics will be covered: • the role of liquidity forecasting in open market operations; • an analysis of the central bank’s balance sheet, including currency in circulation, government balances and net foreign assets; • the appropriate degree of publication of the liquidity...

The MMF 2009 Programme Committee invites submissions of papers from academic, government, and business economists in any area of Monetary, Macro and Financial Economics.