The International Conference on Financial Development and Economic Stability (FDES-2016) aims to assess the opportunities and challenges of financial development as well as the conditions to ensure economic stability, with an emphasis on: - Robustifying the role of financial development in...

This one-day conference will focus on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation. Topics covered include reserving, pricing, loss modelling, the use of R in a production environment, and more. All topics will be discussed within the...

The comprehensive set of reforms in Basel III is due to be finalised in 2016. Once the reforms are fully phased in, banks will be subject to multiple requirements (eg capital requirements, liquidity requirements and additional buffers that depend on an institution’s systemic importance). This...

Topics: - Mortgage and bankruptcy constraints in equilibrium - Role of individuals’ beliefs and expectations about income and house prices - Interactions between housing and labour market choices - Tenure choice: Why does anyone buy a house? - Housing supply - Contracting frictions in housing...

Since the global financial crisis, a number of regulatory policies have been discussed, proposed and sometimes implemented to address shortcomings in the regulatory framework. These include capital and liquidity regulation (notably via Basel III), developments in cross border bank resolution,...

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,...

As the EU looks to move forward on the road to meeting its 2020 climate and energy targets, which include a 20% share for renewables in all EU energy use, Biomass Power 2011 gives you an unrivalled insight into the future of biomass production, trading and renewable energy generation. The...

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...

Papers are welcome on theoretical and empirical topics, examining all aspects of recent developments in banking, international banking, finance and banking, and the linkage between banking and the economy, especially, but not exclusively, on the following themes: - Reconsidering banking and its...