2021 IFM Annual Meeting: International aspects of digital currencies and fintech

CfP Deadline Date: May 30, 2021 Conference Event: October 19-20, 2021 Event Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany or online Keynote speaker(s): Eswar Prasad (Cornell University) Tara Rice (Bank for International Settlements) Organizer(s): Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA) and the ECB The Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA) is organising the fifth annual meeting of its International[…]

2021 Sixth Biennial IADI Research Conference

CfP Deadline Date:January 31, 2021 Conference Event:May 10-14, 2021 Event Location:Online Organizer(s):Bank for International Settlements (BIS) The International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) invites research papers for its 6th Biennial Research Conference to be hosted by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland and held virtually during the week of 10-14 May 2021. The[…]

2021 UCLA Anderson Fink Center Conference on Financial Markets

Conference Event:April 22-23, 2021 Event Location:Online Organizer(s):UCLA Anderson School of Management The Fink Center for Finance and the Finance area at the UCLA Anderson School of Management are delighted to host the second annual UCLA Anderson Fink Center Conference on Financial Markets, April 22-23, 2021, via Zoom. The conference will feature high-quality academic research relating[…]

January 2021: New Bank Underground Post – How does international capital flow?

By Michael Kumhof, Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul and Andrej Sokol Understanding gross capital flows is crucial for both macroeconomic and financial stability policy. However, theory is lagging behind empirical work, as much of the literature continues to rely on net capital flow models developed many decades ago. Missing from these models is an explicit tracking of the[…]

IMF Working Paper: Financial Globalization and Inequality: Capital Flows as a Two-Edged Sword

Author(s): Barry J. Eichengreen, Balazs Csonto, Asmaa A ElGanainy and Zsoka Koczan Date: January 2021 Abstract: We review the debate on the association of financial globalization with inequality. We show that the within-country distributional impact of capital account liberalization is context specific and that different types of flows have different distributional effects. Their overall impact[…]

CEPR Working Paper: Why Does Capital Flow from Equal to Unequal Countries?

Author(s): Sergio de Ferra, Kurt Mitman and Federica Romei Date: January 2021 Abstract: Capital flows from equal to unequal countries. We document this empirical regularity in a large sample of advanced economies. The capital flows are largely driven by private savings. We propose a theory that can rationalize these findings: more unequal countries endogenously develop[…]

EEA-ESEM 2021

CfP Deadline Date: February 15, 2020 Conference Event: August 23-27, 2021 Event Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Organizer(s): European Economic Association and the Econometric Society EEA-ESEM 2021 will take place on the Social Science campus of The University of Copenhagen. This campus is located in the city centre in historical buildings, between the Botanical Garden and the[…]

2021 IBEFA Summer Meeting

CfP Deadline Date: February 26, 2021 Conference Event: June 23-25, 2021 Event Location: Virtual Organizer(s): International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA) The International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA) will hold its next Summer Meeting as a virtual three-day event with 2 sessions each day, Wednesday–Friday, June 23-25, 2021. Members and non-members are equally[…]

December 2020: New BIS Market Committee Compendium

The Compendium gives a comprehensive cross-country overview of the relevant aspects for monetary policy implementation. This includes information on eg institutional features of monetary policy frameworks, communication of policy and the “nuts and bolts” of operations (including reserve requirements, the modalities of standing facilities and the tools for open market operations). The Markets Committee shares[…]