CfP Deadline:
March 31, 2026
Conference Event:
December 17-18, 2026
Event Location:
Helsinki, Finland
Organizer(s):
Bank of Finland
CEPR
Keynote Speaker(s):
Francesco D’Acunto (Georgetown University and CEPR)
Juha Kilponen (Bank of Finland)
Esa Jokivuolle (Bank of Finland)
Nigel McClung (Bank of Finland)
Michael Weber (Purdue University and CEPR)
Description:
In addition to contributed papers, the programme will feature a keynote speech by Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley and CEPR) and a policy panel including Jim Bullard (Purdue University) and Linda Tesar (University of Michigan and CEPR).
The landscape of monetary economics is shaped by many structural shifts including rewiring of global supply chains, trade and financial systems, rapid technological innovation, and evolving monetary-fiscal policy challenges and their interaction, also in the monetary union. At the same time, important lessons remain to be further scrutinized from the recent experience of taming an inflation hike, highlighting the importance of central bank credibility and independence.
Advances in data analytics and machine learning are enabling richer insights into heterogeneous agent behavior, liquidity dynamics, and expectations formation, reshaping how to model and forecast economic outcomes. Emerging themes for research include the potentially overarching implications of artificial intelligence as well as issues for monetary transmission and financial stability raised by new financial developments, including introduction of central bank digital currencies.
The conference will bring together top researchers from academia, central banks, and other policy institutions to present research findings related to monetary economics. More broadly speaking, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Monetary Policy Transmission, Inflation Dynamics and Expectations
- Heterogeneity in Macro and Monetary Economics Models
- Monetary-Fiscal Interactions
- Technological Advances, Financial Market Developments, and Central Banks
- Geopolitical Shocks and Monetary Policy
- Central Bank Credibility and Independence
Submission:
We invite authors to submit completed papers or extended abstracts. Preferences are for completed papers. If you know of a paper that fits the conference theme, please forward this message to the authors.
Papers can be submitted via the CEPR HUB. More information on the submission process can be found on the website.
The deadline for paper submission is 23h59 (Paris/ Geneva/ Rome) March 31, 2026. The authors of accepted papers will be informed by April 30, 2025. Travel and local accommodation for speakers and discussants from academic institutions will be refunded by the Bank of Finland.
Link(s):
Bank of Finland and CEPR Joint Conference on Navigating Monetary Policy by the Northern Lights