The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting lockdowns have created a deep global recession, induced massive government interventions and forced a change in the social and economic behaviour of economic agents. This raises many questions about the path to economic recovery and the...

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. For more than a decade the world economy has operated under elevated economic, financial and political risks, and it has recently been hit by economic shutdowns of unprecedented length owing to the...

Topics of interest: - inflation dynamics and monetary policy; - determinants of inflation expectations and their relationship with observed inflation; - input costs – including wages, intermediate inputs, commodity prices and international components of costs – and their role in inflation...

Worksop Programme: - Money and banking in a New Keynesian model - Monetary policy, corporate finance and investment - Sentimental business cycles - Monetary policy and heterogeneity: an analytical framework - Intrinsic expectations persistence - Distributional effects of monetary policy -...

We welcome any contributions on these topics, particularly those that focus on the following four areas: - The cyclical position of trade: Empirical studies on the cyclical dynamics of trade, short- and medium-term forecasting models, and trend/cycle decompositions. - Structural changes and...

The ECB Forum on Central Banking is an annual event organised by the European Central Bank in the beautiful surroundings of Sintra in Portugal. It provides a unique opportunity for central bank governors, academics, specialised journalists and high-level financial market representatives to...

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. Topics: - big data, unstructured data, high frequency data - forecasting inflation, exchange rates; finance and forecasting - forecasting in the presence of structural breaks - forecasting with dynamic...

The conference aims to provide researchers and policymakers an opportunity to present theoretical and empirical research related to the subdued global growth performance. Of particular relevance are the implications for global linkages and monetary policies in an environment of high economic and...

Topics: - modelling international linkages from a theoretical perspective; key channels of transmission (real and financial); - modelling and empirical identification of spillovers and transmissions (real, financial and policy) between advanced and developing countries; - challenges associated...

The purpose of the workshop is to identify policies and reforms that may suitably support the recovery from the crisis, also through empirical characterization of how institutional factors and past reforms have shaped country-specific crisis experiences.