The workshop aims to foster awareness of ongoing policy‐relevant studies on monetary economics and to stimulate collaboration across the ESCB. The workshop is open to ESCB researchers only. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. Relevant topics include but are not restricted...

This workshop will be framed around how we should fundamentally understand welfare theory, in the wake of findings from behavioural and experimental microeconomics, as an enterprise intended to be relevant to policy and mechanism design. It is structured so as to have three elements in...

Topics: - What are possible effects of environmental risks (e.g. climate change) and policies to mitigate them (e.g. carbon taxes) on central bank objectives (e.g. price and financial stability)? Through which transmission channels do these effects emerge? What roles might the financial system...

Topics: - the definition and measurement of global liquidity; - global liquidity and its impact on o international capital flows; o financial, real estate and FX markets; o monetary and financial stability; - the relationship between standard and non-standard monetary policy and global liquidity.

The workshop will include papers in the area of the links between macroprudential policy, monetary policy and real economic activity as well as a keynote speech given by David Miles (Imperial College and Bank of England).

The event is a combination of lectures on the theory and methods of policy analysis and design, practical problems in modelling and forecasting and computer-based exercises. The following topics are likely to be covered: - techniques for modelling unobserved economic components, state-space...

The topics covered in the event will fit within the following broad themes: - models of financial services regulation including the ‘twin peaks’ model adopted in the United Kingdom; - a judgement-based, forward-looking approach to prudential supervision; - the interplay between...

The topics covered are likely to include: - an overview of aspects of the data justifying an analysis of financial frictions; - different ways of deviating from the frictionless benchmark: - costly state verification - collateral constraints - costly enforcement; - models of financial...

The following key topics are likely to be covered: - approaches to business model analysis for banks, insurers and significant investment firms; - using the results of analysis to focus supervisory activity; and - flexible and proportionate approaches to business modelanalysis that can be...

The following topics will be covered: - credit and asset price cycles; - statistical measures of systemic risk: - Value-at-Risk (VaR) - Conditional Value-at-Risk (CoVaR) - Marginal Expected Shortfall (MES); - network models for systemic risk assessment; and - macroeconomic stress testing.