The conference will focus on the new global challenges for international fiscal and monetary policy. Just three years after the recent pandemic, policy makers are confronted with a new set of global challenges. These include increasing geoeconomic fragmentation, regional conflicts and climate...

The annual meeting will commence on Monday, 29 August 2022, 08:30 a.m. CET with welcoming remarks followed by the first of six parallel sessions which feature 34 contributed sessions in total, covering a wide variety of policy-relevant topics.

Topics: digital currencies, distributed ledger technology, decentralised finance.

Topics: - Micro and macro price dynamics in the open economy - Exchange rate dynamics and pass-through - Firms’ adjustment margins in the face of large shocks - Business cycle comovement and with financial and/or trade linkages - The impact of monetary and fiscal policies on macroeconomic...

Themes: Banking and financial stability; Climate change and sustainable finance; Inflation process; International finance and macroeconomics; Macrofinance; MP, frameworks, and communication; Payments and innovation.

Conference program: Panel 1: Lessons being learned from the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis; Panel 2: Climate change risk in financial markets; Panel 3: A changing clearing landscape.

Topic: Banking and financial services This year’s conference devotes specific attention to the international role of the euro. Other sessions will focus on the challenges to EU banking and capital markets in the digital age.

Topics of interest: - Unconventional monetary policies and normalization of the monetary policy and: the pricing of financial assets, the risk taking by banks, the spillover effects to other developed and emerging markets, the financial market liquidity. - Basel III capital and liquidity ratio...

The aim of the workshop is to exchange views and share experiences related to the emerging concept of macroprudential stance, i.e. the approaches used by policymakers to formulate the macroprudential actions they take to achieve financial stability. The focus will be on the European Union and...

The Barcelona Banking Summer School offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and...