Monetary policies worldwide are currently facing a number of challenges, including how to deal with the low level of nominal and real interest rates, how to deal with a persistent undershooting of inflation targets, how to align inflation expectations with the inflation target, how to deal with...

In line with the previous editions, this workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing innovative research on the determinants of foreign exchange rates. Economists working in central banks, academia, and the private sector are welcome to participate. The conference organizers welcome...

This course aims to introduce students to the state-of-the-art modeling in an open economy for the study of monetary and fiscal policy questions. Gianluca Benigno will teach the course. The following programme outlines the structure of the course: - Exchange Rate Determination and Monetary...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

By invitation only.

Central bank communication and governance questions have taken on greater importance and, as a result, these institutions have become more transparent. While the appeal of greater transparency is seemingly evident, how transparency improves the conduct of monetary policy is subject to differing...

Specific issues that the workshop will explore include preference elicitation, the importance of individual altruistic preferences, cultural transmission and social motivations for pro-welfare behaviour to arise. This workshop will address the social motivations and welfare, inequality aversion,...