The world economy is witnessing an unprecedented surge in inflation, which has led to a globally synchronized tightening of the monetary policy stance across advanced and emerging economies. Against a backdrop of growing fears of global economic fragmentation and a resurgence of geopolitical...

The workshop aims to address frontier issues in the area of international capital flows, including the distributional effects of capital flows, and how they are affected by digitalization and climate change. It will also consider how the policy challenges associated with volatile capital flows...

Focus: the use of high-dimensional data. Advanced analytics techniques, such as the analysis of large and unstructured novel data sources, or the application of techniques derived from machine learning and artificial intelligence, offer new insights into problems in economics and finance. These...

Topics: - Global inflation and the natural rate of interest: understanding drivers, persistence, and longer-term outlook; - Global commodity cycle; - Global spillovers from unconventional monetary policies, tapering, and central bank communications; - International monetary policy interaction and...

Advanced analytics techniques, such as the analysis of novel large and unstructured data sources, or the application of techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence, offer new insights into problems in economics and finance. These approaches have now found their way into...

A two-day event bringing together senior officials and academics to consider the contribution of historically informed inquiry to central bank policy making. Historical evidence can help central banks make better decisions. But learning from history is difficult. In addition to the hard work of...

Topics: - What are the possible implications of digital currencies for the nature of financial intermediation, monetary policy transmission and financial stability? - How should big techs and fintech companies be regulated? - What are the effects of regtech, suptech and govtech applications? -...

Submissions for CEBRA’s 2020are being sought on the below list of themes: - Regulation and financial stability (sessions 1 and 2) - Drivers and dynamics of inflation (sessions 3-7) - International finance and macroeconomics (sessions 8-13) - Financial markets (sessions 14 and 15) - Monetary...

Topics: - What are possible effects of environmental risks (e.g. climate change) and policies to mitigate them (e.g. carbon taxes) on central bank objectives (e.g. price and financial stability)? Through which transmission channels do these effects emerge? What roles might the financial system...

Western economies have now suffered from five years of stagnation. Is this just another recession, albeit unusually severe, or has it been characterised by self-sustaining low-level equilibria or traps? We invite papers that may shed light on this question. We envisage that these may be drawn...