CfP Deadline Date: February 1, 2020 Conference Event: April 22, 2020 Event Location: the OECD headquarters, Paris, France Organizer(s): Bank of England, Banque de France, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The general objective of the workshop is to deepen the understanding of the benefits and risks of global capital flows and[…]
CfP Deadline Date: May 15, 2020 Conference Event: September 21-22, 2020 Event Location: European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Organizer(s): European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund, The Competitiveness Research Network, Halle Institute for Economic Research This conference will address a range of questions raised by these ongoing transformations. How will trade, financial flows and,[…]
Global imbalances are at the core of today’s trade tensions, but official current account statistics may not be sufficient to assess the external positions of financially integrated economies. For instance, balance of payments accounting standards do not prescribe the recording of retained earnings on portfolio equity investment in the current account. This column argues that[…]