The conference aims to bring together female experts to present and discuss new research on macroeconomics and finance of particular interest to central banks. We welcome both empirical and theoretical contributions, on topics including, but not limited to, monetary policy, financial stability...

A conference on economic policy in the times of COVID-19, with special emphasis on monetary policy in Advanced and Emerging Market Economies. The main purpose of the conference is to stimulate the discussion of research on current monetary policy issues, including its interactions with other...

Topics: - Job flows, the Beveridge curve and mismatch - Adjustment to new technologies and globalisation - Demographics: aging, female participation and migration - Wage adjustments - Resilience to shocks.

Competition is a key component of well-functioning markets and fosters productivity, innovation, technological progress and growth. Globalisation and technology have been powerful forces transforming competition in product markets all over the world. These two forces, especially in the context...

Topics: - Capital flows to emerging markets and the role of global and idiosyncratic factors in driving banking, portfolio flows and asset prices in emerging markets, - The impact of policy normalisation in developed economies on liquidity and credit conditions in emerging markets, - The impact...

The purpose of the IRFMP is to promote the discussion of innovative research on theoretical and empirical macroeconomic issues with relevance for monetary policy. Topics: - factors accounting for very low global real interest rates; - whether central banks have adequate scope to ease policy in a...

Topics: - structural and reduced-form models of the inflation process, - causes of inflation persistence, - measurement of inflation and understanding inflation dynamics: the use of micro price data and other big data, - inflation through the lens of (global) Phillips curves and the...

topics: - Productivity measurement and its determinants, - Spreading innovation across firms and globalisation, - External imbalances, adjustment to shocks and globalisation, - Productivity, income inequality and trade, - Firm growth and internationalization, - Trade and resource reallocation, -...

We welcome contributions linking economic convergence to: - balanced and sustainable growth in the global economy, including global imbalances, - sectoral reallocation (and unconditional convergence), - total factor productivity, - the quality of institutions, - income distribution and the...

This conference will bring together experts from all fields related to macroeconomic and financial forecasting to exchange new ideas on quantifying forecasting uncertainty and to put new insights from economic and statistical theory into practice in the current macroeconomic environment. The...