Topics: - What is the empirical evidence on aggregate and distributive effects of unconventional monetary policy (e.g., negative interest rates, asset purchases, targeted longer-term refinancing operations)? Through which channels are these effects transmitted? How persistent are they? - What...

Conference—part one: Power speeches and a panel debate on the challenges facing banks and financial institutions. Conference—part two: Two keynote speakers (Professor Axel A. Weber, Chairman of the Board of Directors UBS Group AG and Professor Jean Tirole Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)...

The conference provides a forum for discussing a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues related to monetary policy challenges. Topics: - alternative monetary policy designs and targets - quantitative easing policies: effects on the future of monetary policy - monetary policy exit and...

We have invited papers that explore Strategic HRM issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Topics of interest include the following: HRM in Strategy Implementation; International HRM; HR in Network Organizations; Sustainable Human Resource Policies; HRM and Social Networking; HRM...

The organising committee of this small, informal conference has invited submissions of high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.

The conference motto “Towards Thought Leadership in Digital Transformation” constitutes the substantial focus of WI 2017. “Thought Leadership” hence leads to innovative and substantial results that provide new insights into the modes of action of digital transformation and moreover...

The Swiss banking industry is in a transition: asset management should become a new pillar of the Swiss financial center. But Swiss banks are facing strong competition from traditional asset management hubs. How can the Swiss financial industry master this challenge and find the solutions that...

Over millennia, mankind has used hard cash in various forms ranging from shells to gold coins and paper. More recently, cash has become unpopular in political circles, as it effectively restricts states’ power to tax (explicitly or via negative interest rates) or to survey and potentially...

The conference brings together leading academics, central bankers and bank supervisors, and features keynote speakers Darrell Duffie (Stanford University) and Richard Berner (US Office of Financial Research). Questions for discussion will include: - How do global interconnections arise, and what...

This conference is dedicated to special topics in credit risk measurement and management as well as to the discussion of causes and impacts of events on international financial markets and current regulatory activities in the field. Topics: - Credit analysis and credit ratings - Credit portfolio...