We invite submissions of research papers on current challenges for monetary policy authorities. Topics of particular interest include: - Monetary policy and financial stability - Monetary policy in small open economies - The design of monetary policy frameworks

The objective of this workshop is to bring together academics and policymakers to discuss current issues and challenges in financial stability and regulation. Topics: - Financial instability and sources of systemic risk - Systemic risk indicators and measurements, early warning systems, stress...

The conference will highlight evolutionary perspectives on central banks' responsibilities for price stability and financial stability. We seek high quality contributions which cover different aspects of central banks and central banking and how these tasks have been dealt with and developed...

Recent developments in the world economy have presented substantial challenges to monetary policy. Central banks have responded with great activism and have resorted to unconventional policies such as quantitative easing and an increasing use of forward guidance. Moreover, central banks are now...

Topics: - Credit, asset prices and the transmission mechanism of monetary policy - Interactions between monetary and macroprudential policy - DSGE models with an explicit role for financial intermediation - Potential tradeoffs between price stability and financial stability - Endogenous asset...

We invite academic research papers closely related to the following issues: • How severe are moral hazard problems caused by government rescue operations, and how can these problems be mitigated? • How can the government strike the right balance between limiting the immediate costs of a...

Norges Bank welcomes all central banks to this workshop focusing on business surveys carried out by central banks. Many central banks now carry out business surveys to gather intelligence on the national economy. These survey programmes go by many different names, such as the Beige Book (Federal...

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers working on issues related to the use of simple rules in the conduct of monetary policy. We call for papers on a number of issues related to the use of simple rules, including robustness, financial stability and open-economy...

We welcome empirical and theoretical papers dealing with all aspects of retail payments, in particular the following issues: • Pricing and use of payment services • Efficient pricing of payment services • Substitution among payment instruments, including cash • Pricing in two-sided...

In a modern central bank, the responsibility for monetary policy typically lies within a committee and not, as assumed in the theoretical literature, with a single policymaker. What are the arguments in favour of delegating monetary policy decisions to a committee? Why do the committees differ?...