The economic environment for monetary policy has been in a state of flux for an extended period of time. Years of low inflation and low policy interest rates were followed by the recent episode of high inflation and vulnerable growth. Both policy makers and researchers may need to revisit their...

The conference will bring together top researchers from academia, central banks, and other policy institutions to present research findings related to monetary economics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Monetary Policy, TFP, and Long-run Growth - Monetary Policy and...

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...

We invite submissions of both theoretic and applied research papers from different fields of economics. The research should focus on payments or financial market infrastructures in the areas included, but not limited to: - Two-sided markets and platform economics in payments; - The economics of...

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...

The themes of the conference cover policy and practitioner-oriented research related to systemic risk measurement. We solicit contributions covering a broad range of techniques related to systemic risk analytics, particularly related to (but not limited to) the following themes: - Using systemic...

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...