Cancelled due to COVID-19.

The meeting will focus on the implications of the growing role of digital currencies and fintech for the international monetary and financial system. We invite researchers to submit empirical and theoretical contributions to topics related, but not limited, to the impact of design features of...

Topics: - Transmission and effectiveness of monetary policy; - Causes and effects of economic and financial crises; - Asset prices and economic fluctuations; - Macroeconomic models with financial frictions; - Fiscal-monetary interactions and the resolution of the public and private sector debt...

Mit der Frage, welche Lehren aus der aktuellen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise zu ziehen sind, beschäftigt sich eine internationale Konferenz des Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA). Experten aus den USA und Europa werden vom 13. bis 15. Dezember 2012 an der Universität Heidelberg...

Die gegenwärtige europäische Krise bietet ein widersprüchliches Bild: In Deutschland und auch in mehreren anderen mittel- und nordeuropäischen Ländern ist die Wirtschaftslage trotz steigender Staatsverschuldung relativ gut. Die Bevölkerung in vielen südeuropäischen Ländern aber auch in...

In the 2012 Conference, we plan to address the following topics: - The Euro-Crisis - Restructuring the State: Welfare and Austerity, Parliaments and Executive Decision-making - Economic Democracy - Inequality and Democracy - Crisis Management, Elite Disorientation - International Relations: New...

Die Schuldenkrise ist zu einer Bedrohung für über 300 Millionen Bürgerinnen und Bürger der Eurozone geworden. Die Proteste in den Krisenländern, in denen die Menschen unter einer wirtschaftlich prekären Situation leiden, schwellen an. In den Geberländern schwindet der Wille zur Hilfe....

Contributions should cover one of the following fields: modeling global imbalances, determinants of current account imbalances and net international investment positions, current account imbalances and financial instability, intra-European imbalances, East Asian-US imbalances, current accounts...

The conference programme will include keynote addresses as well as presentations of contributed papers. The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the University of Mannheim invite the submission of theoretical as well as empirical work. We particularly encourage the submission of...

The workshop provides a forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applied contributions that can help identify new directions for forecasting, particularly in the light of the issues raised by the recent financial and sovereign debt crises. The ongoing turbulence in the global economy,...