This conference aims to bring together insights from academics and policymakers to discuss inflation risks, their drivers, and how they propagate to the real economy and financial markets, and the extent to which policymakers can respond to these challenges. Topics: - Measuring inflation risk...

Joint with the Swiss National Bank, the Study Center sponsors a biannual conference organized jointly with the Journal of Monetary Economics. Each conference focuses on a specific topic of relevance for central banks and features six to eight papers that are contributed by leading specialists in...

Jan-Egbert Sturm von der Konjunkturforschungsstelle KOF der ETH Zürich und Marius Brülhart der University Lausanne sind die diesjährigen Redner.

Das mit prominenten Vertretern aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft besetzte Podium widmet sich der Frage, wie es nach der Corona-​Krise mit der Globalisierung weitergeht. Wird es als Lehre aus der weltweiten Pandemie eine Rückkehr zu Isolation und Protektionismus geben? Oder zeigen gerade die...

The conference provides a forum for discussing a wide range of theoretical and empirical issues related to monetary policy. This year, the focus will be on the monetary policy challenges facing low interest rate economies. Topics: inflation dynamics; low interest rates for long; monetary policy...

The organizers of the 2021 annual conference invite papers that discuss drivers and challenges of social policies, including but not restricted to social policies related to the COVID-19 crisis. Papers can have a global, world regional, national, subnational, and/or local perspective. Especially...

Due to covid-19, the workshop and the conference are cancelled.

Family structures in all industrial and post-industrial societies are changing rapidly, as is the economic security that is granted or can be granted within families. Social security systems are challenged to react to these changes, for they shape current developments and also set the course for...

The conference will have three separate streams, each addressing a specific area. The streams are: 1) macroeconomics and methodology; 2) microeconomics and psychology; and 3) consensus, expertise, and trust in economics. Focusing on those debates will be informative because they are timely and...

Universal Child Grants (UCG) are increasingly discussed as a policy instrument to achieve universal social protection and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The conference organisers invite research paper proposals based on evidence from the implementation of cash transfers...