The recent financial crisis has illustrated the importance of the linkages that connect financial systems and economies around the globe. This conference is aimed at characterizing recent global shocks, understanding the transmission mechanism of these shocks, and identifying appropriate policy...

Conference Background: Theoretical and empirical research on financial markets and the banking system, with special focus on the interaction among economic agents, market rules and institutions, appears of foremost importance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

The conference will be based around the themes of: • Econometrics and Empirics of the Crisis • Macroeconomic and Financial Risk • Credit Frictions and the New New Macro • Monetary and Fiscal Policy Responses to the Crisis

The workshop is intended to bring together academics and practitioners to discuss economic developments in east Asia, with a particular emphasis on China. Topics: - International trade and capital flows - Economic development and related policies - Issues related to monetary and fiscal...

The multidisciplinary conference encourages participation of teachers and young researchers who are interested in the following research areas: - Insurance - Corporate finance - Public finance - Financial markets and institutions - Macroeconomic stability [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters...

Topics: · Concrete ways to achieve the optimal degree of transparency for different intermediaries and markets · Mark to market accounting · Opacity of banks’ assets · The role of credit rating agencies · Corporate governance, risk taking and disclosure · Implications for market liquidity

The event is a combination of lectures on the theory and methods of policy analysis and design, practical problems in modelling and forecasting, and computer-based exercises. The following topics will be covered: • unit roots, cointegration and error-correction mechanisms; • vector...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. This course (Carl E. Walsh, University of California) focuses on the theoretical foundations of monetary economics and their policy implications, with some attention paid to the models’...

The conference will provide a platform for local and international scholars and prefessionals to convue, discuss, and share new and different perspectives regarding issues, challenges and inovations in the Islamic and conventional microfinance. The web site is no longer available.

The Asian economies have gained increasing importance for the worldwide development and their weight will increase further . They proved largely resilient to the current financial crisis, yet the roots of the crisis were not unrelated to economic developments and policies in the region. This...