Throughout the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, central banks over the world developed new—unconventional—monetary policy instruments. In the process, central bank balance sheets increased more than tenfold at a global level. This move broke with decades of...

Conference Program: Morning session – Cyber risk governance; Afternoon session – How to enhance cyber resilience in practice.

This annual central bank workshop gives researchers, policy-makers and practitioners the opportunity to discuss theoretical work, empirical findings and policy implications related to the microstructure of financial markets. Studies in all areas of market microstructure are welcome and the...

The objective of this workshop is to host presentations and foster interaction between Senior and Junior Researchers working in the area of household finance. The workshop will include state-of-the-art research on household financial behaviour and on how this is influenced by other choices,...

FinTech, the catch-all label for technology-based innovation in finance, promises to simplify and streamline the financial services industry, and even to disrupt or redefine it. While providing ample opportunities, FinTech also raises significant privacy, regulatory and law-enforcement issues...

Suitable paper topics include: - Advances in modeling debt and default (multiple equilibria and equilibrium selection, policy-credibility, term structure, ...) - Alternative debt restructuring procedures and their impact - Costs of default: growth, future access to debt markets, ... -...

The aim of the conference is to discuss the implications of labor market frictions, institutions and policies for macroeconomic outcomes and the design of monetary policy. Suitable paper topics include: - The sources of cyclical fluctuations in employment, wages and the labor wedge - Micro- and...

State space models are a powerful tool to tackle difficult inference and forecasting problems common in economic and financial series. Given the emphasis placed on forecasting and nowcasting in modern central banks and other financial institutions, state space models seem a much under-utilized...

In the last few decades, house prices have undergone major medium-run fluctuations in many industrialized economies. Boom-bust cycles in house prices, coupled with a substantial increase in household indebtedness, have drawn the attention of policymakers and academics towards the developments in...