The ninth annual Bank of Finland Research and CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) conference, this time arranged jointly with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, will be held in October. The topic is 'Innovation and Intellectual Property in Financial Services'. The call for papers will be posted soon on the conference website http://www.bof.fi/en/tutkimus/konferenssit/tulevat_konferenssit/. The Research Unit will also hold two workshops this year for invited participants: one in May on financial markets in DSGE models, arranged jointly with Simon Gilchrist (Boston University), and one in August focussing on frequency domain methods in macroeconomic analysis, arranged jointly with Patrick Crowley (Texas A&M University). The following seminars are open to all interested parties. Bank of Finland Research Seminars:Thur, 7 Feb 2008, 13.30–15.00
Ph.D. Candidate Paolo Zagaglia, Stockholm University
'The term structure of interest rates and the monetary transmission mechanism' Thur, 6 Mar 2008, 13.30–15.00
Ph.D. Giacomo Carboni, European Central Bank Thur, 3 Apr 2008, 13.30–15.00
Ph.D. Gyöngyi Lóránth, University of Cambridge Thur, 8 May 2008,13.30–15.00
Prof. Ph.D. Charles M. Kahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Bank of England Please register in advance via Marjut Salovuori at seminars@bof.fi. For further information visit the seminar site http://www.bof.fi/en/tutkimus/konferenssit/tutkimusseminaarit/. BOFIT seminars:Tues, 5 Feb, 10:30
Jan Fidrmuc (Brunel University)
'Money can't buy me growth: Making change happen in post-communist countries?' Tues, 4 March, 10.30
Zuzana Fungacova and Laura Solanko, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition
'Risk taking by Russian banks' Please register in advance via Liisa Mannila (firstname.lastname@bof.fi, + 358 10 8312268). For further information visit the seminar site http://www.bof.fi/bofit_en/tutkimus/seminaarit/tiistai/seminaarit.htm |