ZEW Mannheim is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 2025 edition of the ZEW Annual Public Finance Conference. The conference will take place on 22 and 23 May in Mannheim, Germany. The annual conference aims to cover all fields of public economics. This year’s keynote lectures and...

Call for Papers 8th Economics of Media Bias Workshop May 8 – 9, 2025, in Frankfurt, Germany We invite researchers to submit papers or extended abstracts to the 8th Economics of Media Bias Work- shop. The workshop will be a platform to discuss current research and explore new collaboration...

Long-term trends like demographic change and climate change pose major challenges for the sustainability and stability of financial markets. For households, firms and financial institutions these entail far-reaching consequences with regard to financial decision-making, old-age provision,...

The INTERACT project, carried out jointly with the ifo Institute, analyses how the financial sector can support sustainable investments more effectively. It analyses all the steps of financial intermediation – from the role of private investors to the potential implications of capital and...

Topics: Without limiting the scope of topics, areas of particular interest are: - regulation, firms, and financial intermediation - law, politics, and finance - monetary policy, inflation, and financial resilience - macroprudential policy and real estate - financial networks and systemic risk -...

The conference will focus on the new global challenges for international fiscal and monetary policy. Just three years after the recent pandemic, policy makers are confronted with a new set of global challenges. These include increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, regional conflicts and climate...

The Deutsche Bundesbank will host the “International Conference on Payments and Securities Settlement - Data and Information” at its Conference Center in Eltville, Germany on 4 and 5 July 2024. The conference, organized in partnership with the Bank of Canada, aims to bring together academic...

We invite researchers to submit papers or extended abstracts to the 7th Economics of Media Bias Workshop. As a group of economists and political scientists, we investigate forms, causes, and consequences of bias, especially in news markets and on social media. Main questions of interest are: •...

The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

Die Zeitenwende ist mittlerweile auch in der Finanzpolitik angekommen. Die finanziellen Spielräume aller staatlichen Ebenen werden enger. Gleichzeitig trüben sich die konjunkturellen Aussichten ein. Zudem spielen der Klimaschutz und die Nachhaltigkeit eine immer größere Rolle. Auf der einen...