We welcome any contributions on these topics, particularly those that focus on the following four areas: - The cyclical position of trade: Empirical studies on the cyclical dynamics of trade, short- and medium-term forecasting models, and trend/cycle decompositions. - Structural changes and...

Workshop Programme: - Negative monetary policy rates and systemic banks’ risk-taking: evidence from the euro area administrative securities register, - Credit risk under IFRS 9 accounting reforms: an application to Irish mortgages, - Estimating probability of default for the household sector...

The ECB Forum on Central Banking is an annual event organised by the European Central Bank in the beautiful surroundings of Sintra in Portugal. It provides a unique opportunity for central bank governors, academics, specialised journalists and high-level financial market representatives to...

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. Topics: - big data, unstructured data, high frequency data - forecasting inflation, exchange rates; finance and forecasting - forecasting in the presence of structural breaks - forecasting with dynamic...

Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - How under-represented are women in fields such as finance, economics and central banks? - What are the factors that keep women from advancing in their careers? - What benefits does increased diversity appear to convey to...

The focus of the Conference is on research that makes use of household level data, with a special interest in the data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Topics: - household consumption, saving, and portfolio choice - housing, mortgage markets, and financial markets -...

The workshop will focus on labour supply, education and wages during the recovery, with an emphasis on micro/macro linkages. We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions. Research topics of particular relevance to the conference include the following: - the determinants of labour...

Conference themes: - Digital transformation of retail payments – instant payments, payment initiation services, mobile payments and digital wallets, - Transformation fostered by technological innovation – distributed ledger technologies, virtual currencies and evolution of correspondent...

This conference will bring together policymakers and researchers and invite them to discuss the possibilities and challenges of narrative-based studies on the effectiveness of macroprudential policies. Topics: - Data sources on the use of macroprudential instruments: best practices in...

Topics: - structural changes in money markets (including repo markets) and their implications for monetary policy implementation, - the evolution of central bank balance sheets and its impact on their role in monetary policy implementation and on money markets (including money market...