The world is facing a concurrence of crises: the war in Ukraine and the ongoing recovery from COVID-19 on top of the effects of climate change. While differing very much in nature, these crises all have a decisive effect on economic and monetary policy. With our conference, we seek to develop a...

The Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2022 offers a timely opportunity to discuss and debate important issues, and to rethink the key theories, concepts and methods used in the field of regional studies in the face of changing regional challenges, and to provide new evidence for the...

We are organising a conference on the Monetary Toolkit theme of the Bank of England Agenda for Research (BEAR). The aim of the conference is to promote BEAR with researchers in academia, other central banks and international institutions, and to foster discussion and collaboration with our...

Topics: - The role of heterogeneity in income/wealth for the transmission of monetary and prudential policies; - Distributional consequences of conventional and unconventional monetary and prudential policies.

The conference organisers are keen to attract papers and sessions which rethink cities and regions by identifying new fields of enquiry, which address a broad research and policy agenda, and include contributions from any discipline which can offer relevant insights at local and regional levels....

The confluence of access to large granular data sources (‘Big Data’) and the rapid advance of modelling techniques like those from machine learning (ML) promises new insights into the economy and a larger information set for policymakers. The Bank of England (BoE) and the Data Analytics for...

This conference will give PhD students and early career researchers (within 5 years after finishing a PhD) the opportunity to network, collaborate and socialise with others working in regional and urban studies, planning, geography, politics, development studies, economics and related fields....

We invite submissions from a range of topics covering - Large granular structured or unstructured data sources (administrative data, web data, from the “digital exhaust”, text data), - Machine Learning for prediction and understanding the economy, - Methods (matching, filtering or cleaning...

Broad themes and key shifts the organisers are keen to facilitate discussion around include, but are not limited to: - Post-2020 EU Budget, the future of EU Policies and their likely implications for cities and regions, - Energy transitions, environmental sustainability, and designing urban and...