The PIER Tools Workshop consists of three six-hour mini-courses, nine hours of practical training sessions (labs), two distinguished guest lectures, the Penn Faculty Lecture, and a half-day, practice-oriented mini-workshop. The courses cover nonlinear models of credit booms, financial crises and...

The conference will bring together academics, supervisors, bankers, and other stakeholders to discuss the theory and practice of bank supervision. Panel 1: Why Supervision Matters; Panel 2: Transparency in Bank Supervision; Panel 3: Discretion, Due Process, and the Rule of Law; Panel 4: "What...

Tiopics and questions: - Acceptance of and support for high taxation levels throughout the 20th century, - Anti- or low-tax movements, - Taxation and inequality, - Transitions from colonial to post-colonial tax and revenue systems, from tariffs to income and other taxes, - Tax evasion, tax...

The Pennsylvania Economics Association welcomes papers in all areas of economics and business.

The Pennsylvania Economics Association welcomes papers in all areas of economics and business. While the association is a regional professional organization, papers for presentation at the conference are not limited to regional economic or business issues.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM Session 1: - “Default and the Maturity Structure in Sovereign Bonds” - “Default Risk of Advanced Economies: An Empirical Analysis of Credit Default Swaps during the Financial Crisis” Session 2: - “Sovereign Default, Domestic Banks, and Financial Institutions” Lunch...

All paper related to the workshop's theme are welcome.

The conference goal is to bring together scholars from Europe and the United States to discuss new and exciting research topics in political economics.