Topic: Banking and financial services This year’s conference devotes specific attention to the international role of the euro. Other sessions will focus on the challenges to EU banking and capital markets in the digital age.

Topics : - Extracting signals from exchange rate movements to inform monetary policy; - Quantifying exchange rate risk premia and their driving factors; - The impact of exchange rate interventions on inflation expectations and/or inflation pass-through; - The impact of carry trade activity on...

The 2017 conference will be held in Brussels on 19 May and will focus on the latest developments of the financial sector, as well as Banking Union and the Capital Markets Union as catalysts for further financial integration in Europe. At this occasion, the European Commission will present its...

Lutz Kilian and Ana Herrera are confirmed keynote speakers. Several experts from central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of England, European Central Bank), energy firms (e.g., Statoil), investment banks (e.g., Nordea and Handelsbanken), would also give their contributions.

The conference will focus on the implications of the new EU supervisory architecture and of the ongoing EU crisis management initiative. - Official presentation of two new reports: (The fifth European Central Bank Report on Financial Integration in Europe and The European Financial Stability and...