<P>1. Signs of the times; 2. Do the right thing; 3. The long arm of the law; 4. Human factors; 5. Workspaces; 6. Engendering safety; 7. Shock and gore; 8. The future looks healthy; 9. Beyond the workplace</P>

The objective of this research is to test the hypothesis that pricing conduct in SouthAfrica, revealed by studies of pricing microdata, can be shown to have an impact on themodeling and conduct of monetary policy. In order to discern stylised facts about pricingconduct in South Africa, use is...

This thesis examines the relationship of monetary policy and investment in a theoretical framework in which monetary and real economic forces are intrinsically interlinked. The full shift from a money, real dichotomy in historical economic thought to the notion of money being an essential...

The first essay formulates a dynamic rational contagion model in order toanalyse the evolution of speculative bubbles. The model consists of two laws ofmotion: the speculative bubble and the probability of the bubble. The rst essayshows that the model has two stable equilibria and one unstable...

On 11-12 May 2011, SUERF and the Belgian Financial Forum, in association with the Brussels Finance Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) organized the 29th SUERF Colloquium “New Paradigms in Money and Finance?” All the papers in the present SUERF Study are based on...