Throughout the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, central banks over the world developed new—unconventional—monetary policy instruments. In the process, central bank balance sheets increased more than tenfold at a global level. This move broke with decades of...

The aim of the conference is to discuss theoretical approaches, empirical analysis, and practical experience of forward guidance on monetary policy. This includes topics such as the choice of time-dependent or data-dependent forward guidance on future policy rates, the publication of forecasts...