There is consensus among the economics profession that r* - the equilibrium rate of interest at which inflation is stable - has strongly declined over past decades – more so in Europe than in the US. While r* in itself is not a policy goal, its currently estimated low level is widely perceived...

We invite academics and professionals to submit papers related to derivative markets and products. The conference will feature a special issue of the Journal of Futures Markets.

There has been a recent surge of work in housing and urban economics, with people often scattered across otherwise disjoint fields such as public finance, labor, trade, development and macro, and using different methodologies. This segment aims to bring together researchers that share an...

The conference aims at bringing together scholars who will present their latest research on banking and financial markets. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to, financial stability, institutional efficiency, technological...

Program: Panel 1: The Many Fates of Heavy Industry; Panel 2: Working Class Experiences and Fragmentations; Panel 3 Post-industrial urban revivals?; Panel 4: The Struggle for Survival or the Calm before the Storm? Reactions to the Crisis of the 1970s in East and West; Panel 5: Post-Industrial...

The workshop provides a platform for researchers and policymakers to discuss new research and to identify areas where further academic and policy-oriented work is needed. Programme: - Session 1: Nation-building & Legislation; - Session 2: Partisanship & Culture in the Economy.

The conference features research paper presentations by leading economists on topics relevant for a central bank. The highlight is the Jean Monnet Lecture, delivered this year by Nobel laureate Esther Duflo.

This course provides a state of the art overview of complex economic systems with boundedly rational heterogeneous agents. The leading paradigm in macroeconomics assumes that economic agents (households, firms, investors) are perfectly rational in making their decisions. Experimental and...

The conference aims to stimulate the discussion on current developments in the field. Papers in all areas of financial market microstructure are invited.

This session discusses the latest advances in theoretical and empirical issues related to financial regulation, defined broadly. Topics will include, but will not be limited to, connections of regulation for intermediaries, households and policymakers in the US and outside the US.