The 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. It focuses on “Central banks in a shifting...

The conference is the ECB’s annual flagship event focusing on frontier issues of monetary policy. It brings together leading academics and central bankers to exchange views on the science and practice of monetary policy. The conference features research presentations and keynote speeches....

Topics: - changing bank structure and business models, including the effects of interest rates, regulation and competition; - the rise of bigtech and fintech, including their impact on the banking system; - the impact of shadow banks on systemic risk in the financial system; - central bank...

Topics of interest: - inflation dynamics and monetary policy; - determinants of inflation expectations and their relationship with observed inflation; - input costs – including wages, intermediate inputs, commodity prices and international components of costs – and their role in inflation...

This conference will bring together users and producers of balance of payments (BoP) statistics and the rest-of-the-world account to discuss outstanding data (analytical) needs and challenges faced by compilers and users of external statistics. This interaction will support the ongoing review of...

Theoretical and empirical macroeconomic papers on the following topics are particularly welcome: - the role of fiscal policy as a stabilising tool, with a particular focus on fiscal policy stabilisation in monetary unions; - the role of fiscal policy in fostering convergence and competitiveness...

Panel 1 “The role of bond markets in the conduct of monetary policy”; Panel 2 “Monetary policy, technology and globalisation”. Attendance is by invitation only.

The European Central Bank organises a biennial conference on household finance and consumption. Its objective is to foster empirical and theoretical research on the implications of household heterogeneity for the accumulation of assets and debt, consumption/saving behaviour and the transmission...

The ECB’s Fourth Macroprudential Policy and Research Conference will bring together 100 or so key players in this field, including central bankers, academics and financial market practitioners. This flagship conference represents a unique opportunity to showcase macroprudential research and...

This conference aims at focusing the strategic debate on the possible disruptions facing the retail payments space, and their potential impact, in the context of the more incremental transformation that is under way. The objective is to improve authorities’, academics’ and practitioners’...