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...

Theoretical and empirical macroeconomic papers on the following topics are particularly welcome: - the role of fiscal policy as a stabilising tool, with a particular focus on fiscal policy stabilisation in monetary unions; - the role of fiscal policy in fostering convergence and competitiveness...

Panel 1 “The role of bond markets in the conduct of monetary policy”; Panel 2 “Monetary policy, technology and globalisation”. Attendance is by invitation only.

The two-day event will provide an opportunity for leading academics, policy makers and practitioners to share their views and understandings on investment finance and competitiveness, while raising awareness of the challenges posed by technological transformation and the need to adapt workforce...

Workshop Programme: - Negative monetary policy rates and systemic banks’ risk-taking: evidence from the euro area administrative securities register, - Credit risk under IFRS 9 accounting reforms: an application to Irish mortgages, - Estimating probability of default for the household sector...

This conference will bring together policymakers and researchers and invite them to discuss the possibilities and challenges of narrative-based studies on the effectiveness of macroprudential policies. Topics: - Data sources on the use of macroprudential instruments: best practices in...

Topics: - operational issues related to the implementation of micro- and macroprudential regulation, - challenges for banking supervision in an environment of low interest rates, including business models, credit risk (with a focus on NPLs and concentration) and risk management, - linkages...

The purpose of the Forum is to promote the discussion of frontier research on empirical and theoretical issues in International Finance, Banking, and Open Economy Macroeconomics, with a special eye on relevance for monetary policy.

Credit market dynamics have increasingly influenced macroeconomic developments in recent years. Notably, since the start of the recent Great Recession, credit markets have been a major source of macroeconomic disturbances as well as being important in the transmission of shocks originating...

The conference will bring together academic, central bank and other financial sector economists working in areas of macroeconomics and finance in which Niels Thygesen (who will turn 80 on 13 December) has been and still is active.