Events
Monetary policy and financial stability
10-11 September 2009
BIS/ECB Workshop in Basel
In co-operation with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) the European Central Bank is organising this workshop to discuss the role of monetary policy in both crisis management and crisis prevention. Bringing together central bankers and academics, the workshop will consider the effectiveness of monetary policy measures, the costs of boom/bust cycles, transmission channels of monetary policy during cycles, and the lessons of the current crisis for central bank strategies.
Global financial crisis
6-7 October 2009
2009 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund / Istanbul, Turkey
The Commissioner will attend these meetings, which are still expected to be dominated by the global financial crisis. Discussions among Ministers from both the advanced and the emerging market economies will likely focus on the implementation of the measures taken. The timing and strength of the possible recovery will be centre stage.
Crisis and reform
15-16 October 2009
DG ECFIN’s 6th Annual Research Conference in Brussels
The 2009 research conference organised by DG ECFIN will bring together economists and policymakers to discuss three interrelated key issues relevant to fundamental economic thinking on the current crisis and the lessons that can be drawn from it. ‘The political economy of reform’, ‘the design of financial systems’, and ‘revisiting the economic paradigm’ are the topics that will be covered in the conference sessions which will include an array of European and international speakers. The conference will seek insights into the interplay between political and economic issues in the reform process, the pros and cons of proposals for reforming financial systems in the light of lessons from the current crisis, and the challenges that the crisis is posing to classical economic thinking on market behaviour.
Monetary economics
29-30 October 2009
ECB conferences in Frankfurt/ “Key developments in monetary economics”
This conference will bring together leading academics and central bank researchers to provide a comprehensive account of the state of the art in monetary economics. The conference papers will present a critical review of the most important developments in this field and indicate interesting directions for future research. A related conference on the same topic will take place at the Federal Reserve Board on 8-9 October 2009. The papers presented at the two conferences constitute the initial drafts of chapters that will subsequently be published in an updated edition of the Handbook of Monetary Economics.
