We are organising a conference on the Monetary Toolkit theme of the Bank of England Agenda for Research (BEAR). The aim of the conference is to promote BEAR with researchers in academia, other central banks and international institutions, and to foster discussion and collaboration with our...

The one-day workshop will bring together academics and policy makers to deepen our understanding of global capital flows. The organizing committee invites authors to submit empirical and theoretical papers on topics including, but not limited to: - Capital flow dynamics during Covid-19; policy...

The Coronavirus pandemic and the widespread economic downturn in the wake of the resulting ‘lockdown’ in many countries have spurred an unprecedented output of research in multiple disciplines. This research is serving as a vital guide to policymakers in governments, central banks and...

The general objective of the workshop is to deepen the understanding of the benefits and risks of global capital flows and advance the debate on the appropriate financial policy toolkit, including through discussion of the effectiveness and externalities of various policies. It aims to enhance...

Topics: - The impact of machine learning and AI on economic growth, productivity and employment; - How machine learning and AI has or will influence inflation and price stability; - Implications for financial stability and systemic risk from AI and machine learning; - Empirical assessments of...

Topics: - The role of heterogeneity in income/wealth for the transmission of monetary and prudential policies; - Distributional consequences of conventional and unconventional monetary and prudential policies.

The confluence of access to large granular data sources (‘Big Data’) and the rapid advance of modelling techniques like those from machine learning (ML) promises new insights into the economy and a larger information set for policymakers. The Bank of England (BoE) and the Data Analytics for...

We invite submissions from a range of topics covering - Large granular structured or unstructured data sources (administrative data, web data, from the “digital exhaust”, text data), - Machine Learning for prediction and understanding the economy, - Methods (matching, filtering or cleaning...

The comprehensive set of reforms in Basel III is due to be finalised in 2016. Once the reforms are fully phased in, banks will be subject to multiple requirements (eg capital requirements, liquidity requirements and additional buffers that depend on an institution’s systemic importance). This...