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 transmission of monetary policy actions to credit markets is substantially influenced by the changing economic environment. Since the start of the Great Recession, credit markets not only have been the source of macroeconomic disturbances but they have also been instrumental in the...

Submissions are welcome on all topics relating to money markets, monetary policy implementation and central bank operations frameworks, in particular: - optimal design of the implementation framework for conventional/unconventional monetary policy measures; - the evolution of central bank...

Topics: - Factors accounting for very low global real interest rates - Monetary policy during and after normalisation, including the role for simple rules and forward guidance, and issues posed by balance sheet normalisation - Adverse effects of disinflation, and approaches central banks can use...

Topics: - recent developments and longer-term trends in labour supply and human capital in Europe; - determinants of human capital investment; - the design and effects of policy measures aimed at fostering labour supply and human capital investment; - the importance of human capital investment...

Topics relating to money markets: - The functioning of the transmission mechanism and optimal design of the monetary policy implementation framework in the new market environment - The impact of market fragmentation on monetary policy implementation; empirical studies on segmentation in the euro...

The series of biennial conferences on statistics held by the ECB provides an important forum for the exchange of views on requirements, opportunities and challenges for statistics for central bank policy-making. The 2014 conference will bring together users and compilers of statistics from...

This conference brings together senior policy-makers and academics to examine the circumstances in which the financial sector could be considered “too big”. In doing so, the conference is designed around three sessions, each devoted to a particular mechanism by which an oversized financial...

Key themes of the conference: - Identifying and measuring monetary policy spillovers - Implications for the international monetary system - Policy coordination issues