We invite submissions addressing notably the following issues: economic and financial adjustments; economic imbalances; country issues; challenges to monetary policy and fiscal policies.

The objective of this event is to bring together academic researchers and policy makers to present and discuss cutting edge research on various aspects related to inflation. We welcome submissions of papers and extended abstracts addressing the following topics: inflation measurement; inflation...

We introduce shocks to the availability of US dollar funding for non-US financial intermediaries in a two-country New Keynesian model with financial frictions. Such dollar shortages lead to uncovered interest rate parity deviations and have a significant negative effects on the macroeconomy....

Topics include but are not limited to: 1) Dos and don’ts of inflation targeting ; 2) Optimal inflation target and the natural rate of interest in economies with limited transmission ; 3) Constraints of fiscal dominance and optimal balance between fiscal and monetary policy ; 4) Policy with...

China has established its role as a major world lender, and policy changes affecting its external position would therefore have pronounced effects over a range of countries and on the global financial landscape in general. In this paper, I characterize China’s external asset holdings and macro...

Labor productivity – real market output per unit of labor input - is a central measure of an economy's standard of living and stands at the intersection of macro and labor economics, relating phenomena as diverse as human capital formation, technological change, dynamics of and trends in the...

The global and European economy have been operating under increasingly unstable conditions for a considerable period of time. More recently, the growing threat of inflation in times of high debt as well as the war in Ukraine have exacerbated the instabilities. Against this background, the...

We provide evidence for a causal link between the US economy and the global financial cycle. Using a unique intraday dataset, we show that US macroeconomic news releases have large and significant effects on global risky asset prices. Stock price indexes of 27 countries, the VIX, and commodity...

Research Clusters were set up by the Heads of Research in order to encourage interaction and collaboration between researchers working on fields of common interest. The Research Cluster is open to all European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and Bank of England (BoE) researchers and participation...

The 2022 edition of the CIREQ Montréal Macroeconomics Conference brings together eight experts to present brand new work on inequality. They will address this topic from several angles, exploring among others the roles of the labor market, firms, asset prices and saving, as well as taxes and...