The call for papers is addressed to all active ESCB researchers including colleagues working in policy areas such as banking supervision, financial stability, economics, international, markets and risk management. Authors are invited to submit theoretical and empirical papers on the...

This is one of the three Research Clusters set up by the Heads of Research of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB), with the aim of fostering interaction and collaboration between ESCB researchers working on fields of common interest. Topics: - The impact and implementation of...

Banco de España together with Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) is starting a series of biennial conferences to promote the research and discussion of topics related to financial stability among academics, practitioners, and policy-makers. Topics: - Analytical frameworks for...

Transparency is becoming an increasingly important theme, and mode of operation, in today’s financial institutions and global financial markets. This year’s eabh summer school will provide training on the latest developments in financial transparency and how financial archivists can serve...

Topics: - the evolution of bank business models and risk-taking preferences in response to regulatory change (Basel III) - the implications of the zero bound problem for (SME) lending choices - the existence of multiple policy objectives and private vs government lending - the challenges...

Topics: - Cross border bank lending, domestic credit, and the current account - Domestic and cross-border response of bank credit and leverage to national monetary policies and global liquidity - Econometric issues in modeling the current account, in particular in currency unions. - The role of...

The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for high-quality work in public economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe as well as key researchers from outside the region. Paper proposals are invited in any area of public economics broadly defined (including...

Topics: - The impact of government ownership of banks on efficiency, credit and financial stability - Politics and banking - Subsidies implicit in the financial safety net, and how to eliminate them - How to cope with the too-big-to-fail and too-complex-to-fail phenomena - The fiscal costs of...

On Sunday, August 26, 2012, the European System of Central Banks will organize a Day-Ahead Conference prior to the annual meetings of the EEA-ESEM in Malaga, Spain. The conference, to be hosted and sponsored by the Banco de España. We encourage the submission of theoretical or empirical...