This 1.5 day workshop aims to bring together academics and policy makers working on issues related to financial regulation. We especially encourage submissions of empirical research underpinned by microdata. The workshop will focus on high-quality research on the assessment of financial...

The aim of the workshop is to discuss new challenges brought forward by the recent financial crisis and by the sluggish recovery in labor markets experienced by several countries. Topics: - economic recovery following boom-bust episodes - the impact on business cycles and economic policy of...

Lutz Kilian and Ana Herrera are confirmed keynote speakers. Several experts from central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of England, European Central Bank), energy firms (e.g., Statoil), investment banks (e.g., Nordea and Handelsbanken), would also give their contributions.

At the workshop, researchers and practitioners discuss issues central to the design, regulation, and use of financial markets including liquidity, bid-ask spreads, transparency, and market structure. The organizers encourage the submission of theoretical and empirical research related to the...

Topics: - Credit, asset prices and the transmission mechanism of monetary policy - Interactions between monetary and macroprudential policy - DSGE models with an explicit role for financial intermediation - Potential tradeoffs between price stability and financial stability - Endogenous asset...

Norges Bank welcomes all central banks to this workshop focusing on business surveys carried out by central banks. Many central banks now carry out business surveys to gather intelligence on the national economy. These survey programmes go by many different names, such as the Beige Book (Federal...

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?...