The workshop aims to bring together about 25 researchers from all fields of economics to discuss high quality research with a focus on R&D, innovation and public policy. We aim at a mix of theoretical and empirical studies exploring the determinants of innovation and R&D based growth and the...

The conference aims to bring together leading researchers to discuss recent developments in empirical banking research. The organising committee invites submissions of high-quality research papers on banking in Emerging MarketsTopics: - The role of geographical and hierarchical distance in...

The Adam Smith Corporate Finance (ASCF) and Adam Smith Asset Pricing (ASAP) Workshops will take place on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd March 2012 at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Topics: - Dynamics of unemployment: How does unemployment, and particularly long-run unemployment, adjust to a slowdown in economic activity? Is there symmetry between upturns and downturns? Have these adjustment mechanisms changed in the current crisis environment? What explains variations of...

The recent financial crisis has led to a plethora of new questions about the objectives, policy practices and tools of central banks, especially during and after crises. Whether the crisis has changed, or should change, our view of central banking, in particular about the degree of...

Topics: quantitative measures the degree of cross-country risk sharing, and of the gains from risk sharing, based on micro and macro data; determinants of the degree of risk sharing; comparisons between interregional and international risk sharing; portfolio choices and international risk...

Topic: any area of financial economics and related fields. Focus Sessions: - Capital Constraints and Asset Pricing (Nicolae Garleanu, University of California Berkeley and CEPR) - Investment-Based Asset Pricing (Lu Zhang, University of Michigan) - Financial Regulation (Emmanuel Fahri, Harvard...

The workshop organisers particularly welcome papers that address any of the following issues: - Adjustment of unemployment, employment and wages - The roles of reforms and polices in influencing labour market outcomes - Tools for analysing the labour market situation

Papers are being sought that focus on the following topics from the perspective of global integration: • Monetary unions: theory and historical experience; • Current account and international portfolio dynamics; • International risk sharing; theory and evidence; • Financial and currency...