The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting lockdowns have created a deep global recession, induced massive government interventions and forced a change in the social and economic behaviour of economic agents. This raises many questions about the path to economic recovery and the...

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. For more than a decade the world economy has operated under elevated economic, financial and political risks, and it has recently been hit by economic shutdowns of unprecedented length owing to the...

Topics of interest: - inflation dynamics and monetary policy; - determinants of inflation expectations and their relationship with observed inflation; - input costs – including wages, intermediate inputs, commodity prices and international components of costs – and their role in inflation...

The European Central Bank organises a biennial conference on household finance and consumption. Its objective is to foster empirical and theoretical research on the implications of household heterogeneity for the accumulation of assets and debt, consumption/saving behaviour and the transmission...

The aim of the workshop is to bring scholars together to present their current research involving expectations surveys. Contributions in the following areas are of particular interest: - factors influencing the way consumers and firms form expectations - the effect of policy measures on...

Worksop Programme: - Money and banking in a New Keynesian model - Monetary policy, corporate finance and investment - Sentimental business cycles - Monetary policy and heterogeneity: an analytical framework - Intrinsic expectations persistence - Distributional effects of monetary policy -...

We welcome any contributions on these topics, particularly those that focus on the following four areas: - The cyclical position of trade: Empirical studies on the cyclical dynamics of trade, short- and medium-term forecasting models, and trend/cycle decompositions. - Structural changes and...

The ECB Forum on Central Banking is an annual event organised by the European Central Bank in the beautiful surroundings of Sintra in Portugal. It provides a unique opportunity for central bank governors, academics, specialised journalists and high-level financial market representatives to...

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. Topics: - big data, unstructured data, high frequency data - forecasting inflation, exchange rates; finance and forecasting - forecasting in the presence of structural breaks - forecasting with dynamic...

The focus of the Conference is on research that makes use of household level data, with a special interest in the data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Topics: - household consumption, saving, and portfolio choice - housing, mortgage markets, and financial markets -...