Topics: - Fiscal and monetary policies when interest rates are at, or close to, the zero lower bound, including balance sheet and debt management considerations. - Modelling financial stability Attendance at the workshop is by invitation only.

Topics: - Crisis topology; asset pricing bubbles, mispricing, contagion, counterparty risk, transparency. - Prediction of crises, indicators, risk measures, ratings, performance measures. - Market regulation, transparency, innovation, disclosure, liquidity, global regulation, governance...

Topics: - Labor market asymmetries among new and old EU countries and institutional reforms - The impact of asymmetries on the on common monetary policy and vice versa: the impact of a common currency on labor market flexibility - Synchronization of economic activities (optimum and enogenous...

There will be two conferences. The first will take place on 16-17 JUNE 2009 in Münster, Germany. A follow-up conference will be held on 17-18 AUGUST 2009 in Sydney, Australia. Topics: 1. Is there a new global paradigm of resource shortages or is it the 1970s all over again? 2. Modeling...

Professor Pagan’s work has had great impact on econometrics and applied macroeconomics, and we invite papers which contribute in either of those streams for presentation at the conference.

The program will consist of invited speakers and contributed papers on a wide range of both theoretical and applied areas of econometrics, microeconomics and macroeconomics.