The economic environment for monetary policy has been in a state of flux for an extended period of time. Years of low inflation and low policy interest rates were followed by the recent episode of high inflation and vulnerable growth. Both policy makers and researchers may need to revisit their...

The conference will provide a forum for discussing innovative research on a wide range of topics relevant to the global economy and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. This year’s conference will honor Maurice Obstfeld’s contributions to economic research...

The conference will bring together top researchers from academia, central banks, and other policy institutions to present research findings related to monetary economics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Monetary Policy, TFP, and Long-run Growth - Monetary Policy and...

Topics: - Monetary and financial policy to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and support the recovery; - Fiscal policies to support growth, reduce inequality, and address the public debt overhang; - Structural policies to restore confidence and mitigate the negative impact on employment and income...

We invite submissions of both theoretic and applied research papers from different fields of economics. The research should focus on payments or financial market infrastructures in the areas included, but not limited to: - Two-sided markets and platform economics in payments; - The economics of...

The themes of the conference cover policy and practitioner-oriented research related to systemic risk measurement. We solicit contributions covering a broad range of techniques related to systemic risk analytics, particularly related to (but not limited to) the following themes: - Using systemic...

Topics: - International spillovers and spillbacks from monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies; - Global determinants of low interest rates and inflation; - Financial risk-taking in a global environment of low interest rates; - Policy challenges in managing large and volatile cross-border...

The Covid-19 pandemic has stretched the monetary policy and fiscal policy reaction to unprecedented dimensions in the situation where both real and nominal interest rates had already fallen considerably since the global financial crises. At the same time, inflation and inflation expectations...

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference will be held virtually. Extreme events pose enormous challenges to the global economy, as evidenced by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the increased frequency of disasters due to climate change. During such...