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’s annual conference on money markets brings together academics, market practitioners and central bankers to discuss the key developments in money markets, monetary policy implementation and central bank operational frameworks. Through a combination of research presentations, keynote...

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 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...

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 ECB’s annual conference on money markets brings together academics, market practitioners and central bankers to discuss the key developments in money markets, monetary policy implementation and central bank operational frameworks. Researchers are invited to present their latest results and...

The 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. It focuses on “Central banks in a shifting...

The conference is the ECB’s annual flagship event focusing on frontier issues of monetary policy. It brings together leading academics and central bankers to exchange views on the science and practice of monetary policy. The conference features research presentations and keynote speeches....

Topics: - changing bank structure and business models, including the effects of interest rates, regulation and competition; - the rise of bigtech and fintech, including their impact on the banking system; - the impact of shadow banks on systemic risk in the financial system; - central bank...

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...