Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

The current macroeconomic environment of low interest rates, low inflation and (in some cases) low growth has been going on for a prolonged period of time in many advanced countries, spurring a debate on both its causes and its policy implications: Why is inflation falling short of central...

The meeting will focus on the interaction between exchange rates and monetary policy. Topics: - the role of exchange rate movements as shock absorbers or sources of macroeconomic and - financial instability - monetary policy design in small open economies - the international transmission of...

Topics: - What are the possible implications of digital currencies for the nature of financial intermediation, monetary policy transmission and financial stability? - How should big techs and fintech companies be regulated? - What are the effects of regtech, suptech and govtech applications? -...

Due to the COVID-19 situation, the FRIC’20 Conference on Financial Frictions has been postponed to August 2021 and the next upcoming FRIC conference is therefore the FRIC’21 Conference on Financial Frictions, which will take place on August 20, 2021.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED. THE NEW DATE WILL SOON BE COMMUNICATED Bilkent Economics, together with CEPR, is organizing a workshop on monetary economics, with emphasis on heterogeneity of policies and responses to these. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -...