The conference will be held both in person and online. Sessions will focus primarily on issues encountered by under-represented groups in economics, finance and central banking. We invite papers drawn from a variety of methods, perspectives, and disciplines and especially encourage submissions...

The scientific committee invites both theoretical and applied submissions on any aspect of this linkage, including but not limited to: - The role of heterogeneity in income/wealth for the transmission of monetary and prudential policies; - Distributional consequences of conventional and...

The main aim of this conference is to take stock of the latest research on the economics of exchange rate adjustment. Economists and policymakers have been discussing for quite a while whether and how far the exchange rate is an effective shock absorber or a source of macroeconomic and financial...

We will consider applications related to all aspects of macroeconomic forecasting. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Data uncertainty and forecast communication - Nowcasting/monitoring of current economic conditions - Conditional forecasts, scenario analysis, forecasting risk -...

We are looking for high quality research papers that may help to guide monetary, and micro or macro prudential policy. Papers may be theoretical or empirical and preference will be given to papers that are imaginative and in an early stage of development.

Topics: - the evolution of bank business models and risk-taking preferences in response to regulatory change (Basel III) - the implications of the zero bound problem for (SME) lending choices - the existence of multiple policy objectives and private vs government lending - the challenges...

In many European economies, the recovery following the financial crisis has proven either sluggish or non-existent. Many countries suffer from persistently high levels of unemployment, coupled with sluggish credit dynamics and stretched fiscal budgets. These outcomes put pressure on policymakers...

This year’s conference will focus on Efficiently Inefficient Markets.

The conference will provide a forum to discuss innovative research on long-term growth, the determinants of natural real interest rates, and secular stagnation and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. The Program Committee welcomes papers addressing (but not...

Judgement and expert knowledge is widely thought to be important in the successful practice of forecasting. For policymakers, forecasts also embody judgements about the state of the economy, the transmission of shocks and optimal policy responses which necessitate the use of structural models....