Andreas Fuster is an Associate Professor of Finance and SFI Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL and a Research Fellow at the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research). His main research interests are in empirical finance (household finance, real estate finance, banking),...

The objective of the one day MIFE conference (Nov 16) is to discuss recent scientific contributions on financial literacy and financial education and implications for policy and practice, with a specific focus on current challenges. We are pleased to organise the interdisciplinary MIFE Workshop...

The Network on Real Estate Markets and Capital Markets (ReCapNet) provides a forum for researchers in the areas of real estate finance, investment, economics, development, housing, urban planning, and public policy to present advanced working papers. Theoretical, empirical and policy-oriented...

Corporate bond markets proved remarkably resilient against a sharp contraction caused by the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. We document three important findings: (1) bond issuance increased immediately when the contraction hit, whereas, in contrast, syndicated loan issuance was low; (2) Federal Reserve...

Regional development is often treated as being based on a clear and consensual perspective on the kind of progress needed. But academic as well as political debates are far less univocal. Regional studies in the past three decades have articulated a range of new and old social, spatial, economic...

The workshop aims at facilitating the networking of young scientists and at promoting the exchange of their latest research. Relevant topics include regional structural change, political economy, economic history, and public economics. Preference is given to empirical papers estimating causal...

The organizing committee invites submissions of high-quality theoretical or empirical research papers on regulation of financial markets. The conference calls for papers from finance, economics and law especially covering topics on the link between financial intermediation and regulation,...

The summer school aims at providing an introduction to Keynesian macroeconomics and to the problems of European economic policies to interested graduate students (MA and PhD) and junior researchers. It will consist of overview lectures, a panel discussion, student study groups, an SFC lab, and a...

The Theme ” Regional transformation: labor, skills, and resilience” The demographic transition, digitalization, macroeconomic volatility, and not at least the Covid-19 pandemic shape regional economies and labor markets by generating positive and negative shocks as well as requiring...

CEUS is an academic center that integrates both research and educational programs on European economic topics. CEUS invites researchers from universitiesas well as policy and financial institutions to present new research or just attend the workshop. Topics: - Economic effects of migration; -...