Financial literacy has become a key competence. Individuals face large challenges when it comes to making financial decisions. Long-term trends like demographic change and digitalisation have farreaching implications for old-age provision, savings behaviour, interest rates, and financing...

Workshop topics include competition and risk-taking of individual banks, the (e)valuation of climate risks by financial institutions and in financial markets, the stability of the financial sector and its regulation and the role of real estate markets for financial system resilience. The...

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...

Programm: - Einführung in das Thema / Blick auf die aktuelle Krise - Von der Subprimekrise zur Staatsschuldenkrise: Abbildungsmöglichkeiten im Kontensystem der VGR - Von der Subprimekrise zur Staatsschuldenkrise: Realwirtschaft, Finanzwirtschaft und Spekulation -...

The submission of research papers in the following fields is especially encouraged: 1. Macro-financial models linking financial stability and the performance of the economy 2. Models and tools for the early identification and assessment of systemic risk 3. Assessing contagion risks 4....

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...

We welcome contributions in finance and economics, as well as in economic and urban geography, regional science, urban development planning, demography, and law. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): - Spillovers Between Real Estate Markets and Capital Markets - Financing Behaviour...

Finanzkrise, Rohstoffverknappung, Energieversorgung und Klimawandel werden zunehmend in einem Zusammenhang gesehen: Kann beispielsweise der drohende Klimawandel als Innovationsmotor wirken? Ist „Green Economy“ die Basis für ein neues Wirtschaftswunder? Welche Impulse kann die...

Submissions in all areas of financial and insurance risk management are welcome. Topics of interest include: - Market, credit, operational, liquidity and energy risk - Stress testing and scenario analysis - Systemic risk in banking and insurance - Solvency II and Basel III - Dependence...