The coincidence of the rise of this new financial system and the current financial crisis has naturally led to a great deal of fascinating research on the links between competition, stability, and efficiency in the financial sector. In this seminar we aim to take stock of this research effort,...

The main objective of this workshop is to share innovative macroeconomic research using frequency domain methods and also to initiate greater collaboration between economists who work in this area. A broader objective will be to demonstrate the usefulness of these techniques in empirical...

Financial regulation is usually justified by pointing to market imperfections that regulation seeks to address. Yet all real-world markets are imperfect and the welfare costs arising from these imperfections create strong incentives for market participants to devise their own solutions....

The seminar will focus on a wide range of financial stability issues. The topics covered in the event will fit within the following broad themes: • the enhanced role of the Bank of England in the UK framework for financial stability; • identification and assessment of key risks to financial...

The University of Bari “Aldo Moro” partners Universities participating to the MA in Economics of Globalization and European Integration (E.G.E.I.) are jointly organizing a workshop on the “Economics of Global Interactions”. The workshop will provide scholars with the opportunity to...

Contributed sessions: - Oligopoly Theory - Contracts and Incentives - Empirical IO - Experiments in IO - Auction Theory - Vertical Relations - Competition Policy - Regulation - Industrial Policy - The Economics of R&D

We invite contributions from all areas of Netspar’s research program. Netspar - Network for Pensions, Aging and Retirement - stimulates innovative scientific research on all aspects of the social sciences related to ageing and retirement. Topics of interest are, among others, - Macroeconomic...

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss recent advances in the analysis of Economic Growth and Business Cycles. To maximize interaction among participants, no parallel sessions are planned.

The workshop aims to gather methodological and applied contributions focussed on the ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of the following kinds of national or regional innovation policies: - R&D and innovation incentives at the level of single firms; - business networking; - technology transfer; -...

Submitted papers should address at least one of the following questions: a) with respect to measurement: • How to measure the freedom/responsibility elements of opportunity? • How to take into account adaptive preferences? • How to measure the object of opportunity element: the "what"...