Since 2008, the Bank for International Settlements and the World Bank, in corporation with partner institutions, have organized this biennial conference to discuss policy issues, quantitative methods and current challenges for central banks, sovereign wealth funds and public pension plans. The...

This conference will bring together users and producers of balance of payments (BoP) statistics and the rest-of-the-world account to discuss outstanding data (analytical) needs and challenges faced by compilers and users of external statistics. This interaction will support the ongoing review of...

The International Macroeconomics and Finance (IMF) Programme is one of the three successors to the International Macroeconomics (IM) Programme, and this meeting replaces the Macroeconomics of Global Interdependence (MGI) Meeting. Topics: International macroeconomics and stabilisation policy;...

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 role of fiscal policy for business-cycle stabilisation and for risk sharing in a monetary union is a matter of interest for both policymakers and academics, especially in view of the financial crisis in Europe of past years. The aim of the conference is to explore this role, accompanied by...

The goal of the conference is to bring together academics and policy makers to discuss labor markets dynamics and their relation with growth. Topics: - Labor market responses to macroeconomic and policy changes: structure of labor markets, downward wage rigidities, the institutional environment...

Topics: - the definition and measurement of global liquidity; - global liquidity and its impact on o international capital flows; o financial, real estate and FX markets; o monetary and financial stability; - the relationship between standard and non-standard monetary policy and global liquidity.

The conference is targeted at experts from the community of central banks and sovereign wealth managers (including commodity savings funds and sovereign pension funds) as well as academics. It aims to facilitate an ongoing dialogue between the reserve and asset management specialists of the...

Topics: - modelling international linkages from a theoretical perspective; key channels of transmission (real and financial); - modelling and empirical identification of spillovers and transmissions (real, financial and policy) between advanced and developing countries; - challenges associated...

Topic: all areas of macroeconomics and finance in emerging markets