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.

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...

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...

The conference aims to close gaps in our understanding of the international transmission of vulnerabilities, shocks and policies, and the trade-offs for policymakers, in the current environment of incomplete and divergent recoveries, high uncertainty, and structural change.

Each year the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Commission organise a joint high-level conference on European financial integration. This year, in conjunction with the conference, the ECB will publish its biennial report on Financial Integration and Structure in the Euro Area and the...

The fifth biennial ECB conference on Fiscal policy and EMU governance brings together participants including from academia, the central banking community, European and international organisations. This year’s conference will address the fiscal policy response and monetary and fiscal policy...

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. During the event we will explore the...

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 Esther Duflo.