CONFERENCE PROGRAM: - The Resilience of the U.S. Corporate Bond Market During Financial Crises; - Macro and Micro Skewness and Volatility Over the Business Cycle; - Do We Need Traditional Dealers in OTC Markets?; - U.S. Banks and Global Liquidity; - Expectations of Fundamentals and Stock Market...

Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

The current macroeconomic environment of low interest rates, low inflation and (in some cases) low growth has been going on for a prolonged period of time in many advanced countries, spurring a debate on both its causes and its policy implications: Why is inflation falling short of central...

European institutions and European integration have recently undergone a serious test in the wake of the financial, economic and fiscal crises. While the euro has supported the integration process and has protected the members of the monetary union from internal exchange rate shocks, the crisis...

Theme: “Catching-Up Strategies after the Crisis” Session 1 - Catching-Up Prospects after the Crisis Panel 1 - Challenges for Monetary Policy in the CESEE Region Session 2 - The New Role of Growth Financing Session 3 - The New Role of Exports Session 4 - The Catching-Up Experience of the...

Preliminary Programme: Keynote Session Keynote 1: Contagion and Spillovers – the Recent European Experience and the Way Forward Keynote 2: Elections as Confidence Multipliers in Emerging Democracies Session 1: Real Economy Channels of Crisis Transmission Session 2: Financial Sector...

Session 1: Commodities as an asset class Session 2: Financial investors and commodity market dynamics Session 3: Energy markets in Europe – state of play, future prospects and implications for financial markets Session 4: Oil revenues: Role and management of sovereign wealth funds, and...