Conference

• November 30, 2020

  The Eighth Public Investors Conference

  Conference to be held on November 30 and December 1, 2020. Co-sponsored by the BIS, World Bank, Bank of Canada and Banca d'Italia.

  Content Type(s): Conference
• September 23, 2020

  Conference on Diversity and Inclusion in Economics, Finance, and Central Banking

  Jointly sponsored by the Bank of Canada, Bank of England, European Central Bank and Federal Reserve Board, the conference will be held on September 23-24, 2020 at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The call for papers is open until April 30, 2020.

  Content Type(s): Conference
• April 24, 2020

  Debt Management Modelling Workshop

  The Bank of Canada is hosting a one-day workshop focusing on advances in models and frameworks for sovereign debt management.

  Content Type(s): Conference
• November 29, 2019

  6th Annual Payments Canada and Bank of Canada Joint Payments Research Symposium

  Bank of Canada Conference to be held on November 29, 2019.

  Content Type(s): Conference Topic(s): Digital currencies and fintech
• 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.

  Content Type(s): Conference
• 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.

  Content Type(s): Conference
• 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.

  Content Type(s): Conference
• 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.

  Content Type(s): Conference
• 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.

  Content Type(s): Conference Topic(s): Climate change
• March 8, 2019

  Risk Management and Financial Innovation Conference

  The Bank of Canada and the Rotman School of Management organized a conference in memory of Professor Peter Christoffersen, a well-respected colleague and Bank of Canada research fellow, who passed away in June 2018. The conference showcased frontier research in finance on topics such as fintech, banking regulations, extreme risks and risk management.

  Content Type(s): Conference