The plenary event will be opened by Swiss Finance Institute Foundation Board Chairman Olivier Steimer and feature leading Stanford University credit risk expert Darrell Duffie. Emission derivatives expert Brian O'Hearne and London Business School's asset pricing theorist Suleyman Basak will join...

The Workshop will focus on the economics of grey an black finance. We wish to invite theoretical and empirical papers that explore different areas of interest, including: financial offshoring, underground and informal banking, money laundering, terrorism finance, usury, financial crime and law...

The XII Report on Financial System is devoted to the undergoing metamorphosis of the Italian banking industry, through empirical analysis and institutional outlooks, with a peculiar focus to comparative analysis with other European countries. Moreover it aims at addressing the issue of the...

As part of its activities, the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) Europe, organizes an annual symposium. A major part of the conference will be devoted to: "Private equity, real estate, commodities and other alternatives". Authors, both academics and from the financial...

Papers are encouraged on all aspects of the study of accounting regulation and standardization, including developments in theory, empirical studies and policy-oriented analyses. Papers that address issues of compliance, audit oversight and enforcement will be welcomed, together with other...

The aim of this annual workshop is to provide a forum for central bank economists to present and discuss ongoing research on macroeconomic models. The special topic this year will be "Financial frictions in macroeconomic models". As in previous years, the agenda will also include discussions of...

AREAS of INTEREST 1. The consideration of methods and models for quantitative measurement and analysis of risk in economic, financial and social systems; 2. The consideration of methods and models for quantitative measurement and analysis of risk in complex technical systems (nuclear power, gas...

In a modern central bank, the responsibility for monetary policy typically lies within a committee and not, as assumed in the theoretical literature, with a single policymaker. What are the arguments in favour of delegating monetary policy decisions to a committee? Why do the committees differ?...

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together young and established researchers with an interest in new political economy and public choice. Papers are invited from all branches of the subject and can be theoretical and/or empirical.

The intensive one-day meeting will allow research economists to share their ideas and research on the uses and usefulness of real-time data. Both theoretical and applied papers (in particular work in progress) using real-time data in the field of macroeconomics are welcomed. Papers that are of...