The conference aims to bring together high-quality theoretical and empirical research providing new insights into the economics of climate change and its relation to the financial system at large, including monetary policy and financial regulation. Topics: - Climate-related risks to financial...

Preventing climate change is one of the largest global challenges requiring extensive actions by both firms and policy makers. This will also require a substantial transformation of flows intermediated by the financial sector. Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the extent to which the...

The conference aims to bring together high-quality research providing new insights into the transmission mechanisms and economic effects of central-bank asset purchases, liquidity support and other monetary-policy actions conducted via the central bank’s balance sheet. Topics: - Challenges for...

The workshop offers PhD students the possibility to present papers within the fields of monetary policy and financial stability. We welcome theoretical as well as empirical papers, and will consider both completed papers and preliminary drafts. We welcome theoretical as well as empirical papers...

Throughout the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, central banks over the world developed new—unconventional—monetary policy instruments. In the process, central bank balance sheets increased more than tenfold at a global level. This move broke with decades of...

The meeting will focus on the interaction between exchange rates and monetary policy. Topics: - the role of exchange rate movements as shock absorbers or sources of macroeconomic and - financial instability - monetary policy design in small open economies - the international transmission of...

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED. THE NEW DATE WILL SOON BE COMMUNICATED Bilkent Economics, together with CEPR, is organizing a workshop on monetary economics, with emphasis on heterogeneity of policies and responses to these. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -...

The aim of the conference is to discuss theoretical approaches, empirical analysis, and practical experience of forward guidance on monetary policy. This includes topics such as the choice of time-dependent or data-dependent forward guidance on future policy rates, the publication of forecasts...

This year, the focus of the conference is on the linkage between sovereign debt and real economic activity. To a certain extent, and at least in the short-run, public debt promotes economic growth given it allows the government to build infrastructure, provide health care, improve education and...

Topics: - Tensions between ex-ante risk allocation and ex-post contagion - Asset pricing from a network perspective - Propagation and amplification of idiosyncratic shocks in networks - Aggregate shocks and transmission in the economy - Cross-border banking and financial integration - Financial...