The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting lockdowns have created a deep global recession, induced massive government interventions and forced a change in the social and economic behaviour of economic agents. This raises many questions about the path to economic recovery and the...

Topics: - changing bank structure and business models, including the effects of interest rates, regulation and competition; - the rise of bigtech and fintech, including their impact on the banking system; - the impact of shadow banks on systemic risk in the financial system; - central bank...

We seek both empirical and theoretical policy-relevant papers. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Interactions between commodity prices and the macroeconomy - Macroeconomic effects of shocks to the terms-of-trade - Business-cycle spillovers and international co-movement -...

The conference will address the need for a macro-prudential regulatory framework to confront systemic risk. Issues of interest include the definition and measurement of systemic risk and bubbles, the design and institutional implications of macro-prudential regulation, and its relation to...