The purpose of the Forum is to promote the discussion of frontier research on empirical and theoretical issues in international finance, global banking, and open economy macroeconomics, with a focus on relevance for monetary policy and financial stability. This year's Forum will focus on the...

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - How can the fields of economics, finance and central banking better attract and retain members of under-represented groups? - What are the obstacles to greater diversity, equity and inclusion in these fields? What steps can be taken to...

The Eurosystem has launched the investigation phase of a digital euro project. Many other jurisdictions are also exploring options for central bank digital currencies. The European Commission has announced a legislative proposal on a digital euro for early 2023. In this context, the conference...

The ECB’s annual conference on money markets brings together academics, market practitioners and central bankers to discuss the key developments in money markets, monetary policy implementation and central bank operational frameworks. Through a combination of research presentations, keynote...

The conference will feature once more an impressive academic line-up and, as last year, will be in virtual format. The three conference sessions will tackle issues related to monetary policy, credit and financial crises, the role of financial markets in monetary policy transmission as well as...

We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions in the form of high-quality research papers related to stress testing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The role of stress testing in microprudential and macroprudential supervision; - The design of macroeconomic scenarios...

The conference features research paper presentations by leading economists on topics relevant for a central bank. The highlight is the Jean Monnet Lecture, delivered this year by Nobel laureate Jean Tirole.

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...

The ECB Forum on Central Banking brings together central bank governors, academics, financial market representatives, journalists and others to exchange views on current policy issues and discuss the Forum’s key topic from a longer-term perspective. At this year’s Forum we will consider the...

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...