The conference will focus on on the policies and politics of austerity and on the various aspects of the Greek crisis. Papers dealing with similar experiences in other countries that may bring light on the effects of austerity policies in Greece will also be considered. The conference will be...

Topics: - Stress test - Assessment of quality of capital - Risk retention - QM (qualified mortgages) and QRM (qualified residential mortgages) - Scenario analysis - Liquidity risk measurement - Reverse stress test - Short term liquidity versus long term funding - Sustainability management -...

We invite theoretical and empirical research aimed at improving our understanding of the sources of fluctuations, their propagation, and their implications for macro policy in today’s globalised environment. Topics of special interest include, but are not restricted to: - Trade linkages,...

Topics: - Financial markets/financial instabilities and the macroeconomy - Standard and non-standard monetary policy, the zero lower bound and the interactions with economic dynamics - Monetary and fiscal policy interactions - Fiscal policy, sovereign default risk and private sector debt - Risk...

The topics of the conference are the origins and consequences of financial crises as well as possible solutions to prevent and overcome such crises. Both of these topics will be evaluated especially from an Austrian Economics perspective. Besides presentation and discussion of more than thirty...

This workshop provides an opportunity for all those interested in monetary policy, asset prices and real economy to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both empirical and theoretical papers that are broadly consistent with the workshop’s special...

This two-week seminar aims to improve participants’ understanding of current modelling strategies and forecasting techniques. The following topics will be covered: - unit roots, cointegration and error-correction mechanisms; - techniques for modelling unobserved economic components,...

Empirical Methods in Money Macro - Maik Wolters (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) This course deals with the analysis of dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium models. The focus of this course is on methodological aspects related to the analysis of business cycle models. In particular we...

The conference seeks to explore the interaction of fiscal and monetary policy, particularly but not exclusively in monetary unions. Conference topics: - challenges of a single monetary policy with decentralised fiscal policies, - the impact of fiscal policies on prices and output, - the impact...