November 7, 2019
Conferences and workshops,
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October 17, 2019
Conference on the Economics of Central Bank Digital Currency by the Bank of Canada and Sveriges Riksbank
The Bank of Canada and Sveriges Riksbank jointly organized this conference on October 17 and 18, 2019 at the Bank of Canada headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario. The event aimed at providing a forum for central bankers and academic researchers to discuss the arguments for and against the issuance of CBDC and under what conditions, if any, governments should issue their own digital currencies. -
October 17, 2019
Advances in Fixed Income Macro-Finance Research
The Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco hosted the 7th Conference on Fixed Income Markets, discussing the implications for monetary policy of new research that focuses on bond and money markets. -
August 13, 2019
2019 Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, Payments and Finance
The Bank of Canada, together with Ed Nosal (Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta) and Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison), showcased research on the interbank market, monetary policy, cryptocurrency and central bank digital currency. -
June 25, 2019
The Tenth International Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics
Macroeconomic theories have traditionally been tested using non‐experimental data from the field. However, modern, micro‐based macroeconomic models can also be tested in the laboratory, which affords better causal inference, and researchers have begun to pursue such experimental tests. -
May 10, 2019
Climate Change and Central Banking Workshop
This Bank of Canada conference examined macroeconomic and monetary policy challenges around climate change, including firm and bank exposures to physical and transition risks. Participants also discussed medium- and long-run implications for productivity growth and trade.