Conference on “DSGE Models: The present, the past, and the future.”, featuring panel discussions by leading scholars in macroeconomics.
May 07-08, 2026

Confirmed participants: Stéphane Adjemian, Guido Ascari, Marta Bańbura, Florin O. Bilbiie, Fabio Canova, Lawrence J. Christiano, Günter Coenen, Fiorella De Fiore, Ferre De Graeve, Marco Del Negro, Wouter den Haan, Hans Dewachter, Martin Eichenbaum, Stefano Eusepi, Francesco Furlanetto, Davide Furceri, Catherine Fuss, Eric Ghysels,
Domenico Giannone, Raffaella Giacomini, Eleonora Granziera, Romain Houssa, Joe Hazell, Leonardo Iania, Pelin Ilbas, Cosmin Ilut, Péter Karadi, Robert Kollmann, Wolfgang Lemke, Michele Lenza, Jesper Lindé, Francesca Loria, Bartosz Maćkowiak, Leonardo Melosi, Karel Mertens, Emanuel Mönch, Francesca Monti, Roberto Motto, Rigas Oikonomou, Gert Peersman, Bruce Preston, Giorgio Primiceri, Andrea Raffo, Ricardo Reis, Jen Paul Renne, Werner Roeger, Lorenza Rossi, Massimo Rostagno, Juan Rubio-Ramírez, Yuliya Rychalovska, Chiara Scotti, Stéphanie Schmitt-Grohé, Frank Schorfheide, Sergey Slobodyan, Frank Smets, Andrea Tambalotti, Oreste Tristani, Harald Uhlig, and Sébastien Villemot

The events will take place in Auditorium of the National Bank of Belgium, Room A, Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères 61, 1000 Brussels.

To participate, email your CV and a short motivation statement (in the email body) by 1 April 2026 to Prof. LeonardoIania ([email protected]), with “SoFiE 2026” in the subject line.

Banca d’Italia will host a conference on new approaches to modeling and assessing the macroeconomic impact of uncertainty.

The meeting will bring together academics and policymakers to discuss recent advances in the use of micro and macro data for measuring aggregate uncertainty, in modelling and estimating the effects of heightened uncertainty on the macroeconomy via the decisions of firms and households, on monetary and fiscal policy transmission, and on macroeconomic forecasting and scenario analysis. The event will last one and a half days, with a conference dinner scheduled at the end of the first day.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

•Measurement of macroeconomic and microeconomic uncertainty
•Uncertainty shocks and business cycle fluctuations
•Firm-level uncertainty, investment, and employment dynamics
•Household-level uncertainty, consumption, and saving behaviours
•Uncertainty and monetary policy transmission
•Monetary and fiscal policy design under uncertainty
•Solving and estimating models under uncertainty: machine-learning, global-solution andnon-linear methods
•Forecasting, scenarios, and tail-risk analysis under uncertainty

Keynote speakers

Dario Caldara (Federal Reserve Board) and Barbara Rossi (European University Institute and Universitat Pompeu Fabra) are confirmed keynote speakers for the event.

Paper submission and important dates

We invite the submission of theoretical and empirical papers. Manuscripts must be submitted to [email protected] by April 15th, 2026. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by June 15th, 2026.

Reimbursements for travel and accommodation are available for academic speakers, subject to a cap. All presentations will take place in-person at Banca d’Italia in Rome.

Organising committee

Alessandro Cantelmo, Alessandro Ciancetta, Pietro Cova, Davide Delle Monache, Giacomo Mangiante and Claudia Pacella (Banca d’Italia).

The Bank of Canada, the Banca d’Italia, and the Center for Applied Macroeconomic and Commodity Prices (CAMP) at BI Norwegian Business School are organizing a joint conference that will take place in Rome on October 8-9, 2026. Hosted by Banca d’Italia, the conference will bring together leading academics, central bank researchers, and policymakers to present and discuss innovative research on key macroeconomic challenges and policy responses in today’s interconnected world. Submissions are welcome from any field of applied macroeconomics, with special emphasis on the following topics:

• Global commodity markets, energy transition and the macroeconomy
• Monetary policy conduct and strategy
• International spillovers and exchange rate dynamics
• Fiscal sustainability, sovereign debt risk and macro-financial stability
• The economic implication of military spending and buildups
• Trade, geopolitical fragmentation and economic effects
• Technological change, digital transition, AI, and the macroeconomy

Christiane Baumeister (University of Notre Dame) and Francesco Zanetti (University of Oxford) will be the keynote speakers for the event.

Deadline for submission: May 22, 2026. Papers or extended abstracts can be submitted to the following email address: [email protected] . Authors of successful submissions will be notified by 22 June. Limited travel support is available for academic speakers (CEPR limits apply). 

Organizers:
Hilde C. Bjørnland (BI Norwegian Business School)
Reinhard Ellwanger (Bank of Canada)
Fabrizio Ferriani (Banca d’Italia)
Andrea Gazzani (Banca d’Italia)
Francesco Ravazzolo (BI Norwegian Business School)

Call for papers

The National Bank of Ukraine invites research and policy submissions for the online workshop on Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets: Credit and Saving Behavior in Monetary Transmission, to be held on 14 May 2026.

Over the past decades, many emerging market economies (EMEs) have made substantial progress in strengthening monetary policy frameworks and anchoring inflation expectations. At the same time, a balanced monetary policy response to recent global shifts, heightened uncertainty, and frequent supply shocks requires a deep understanding of the effectiveness of transmission mechanism and, in certain cases, its targeted calibration.

Against this background, increasing attention focuses on how financial systems transmit policy signals to inflation and the real economy. This process reflects how credit evolves over the cycle and across structural dimensions, how agents allocate savings across currencies and financial instruments, and how these decisions interact with exchange rate dynamics, fiscal needs, and the sectoral distribution of credit. Such mechanisms are particularly important for EMEs, where financial systems are less developed and often subject to financial frictions and structural credit constraints.

In Ukraine, the ongoing war, elevated uncertainty, and risks further underscore the importance of financial system development and stability as key preconditions for effective monetary transmission and for supporting further economic recovery through the market-based and non-distortive allocation of credit and savings.

The National Bank of Ukraine welcomes academic research and policy-oriented contributions related, but not limited, to the following topics:

 The role of financial intermediation in monetary transmission, including credit and deposit channels
 Pass-through of policy rate changes to lending and deposit rates, including asymmetries and non-linearities in the transmission process
 Adaptation of central bank instruments to enhance transmission efficiency
 Heterogeneity in monetary transmission across households, firms, and financial institutions
 Credit development, the structural and cyclical components of credit dynamics, and their implications for financial stability and monetary transmission
 The sovereign-bank nexus, exchange rate effects, and the sectoral allocation of credit, and their role in monetary transmission

Paper Submission:

Submit your full paper or extended abstract by email to [email protected], using as email subject MPEM2026.

The submission deadline is 19 April 2026.

Practical Details:
Format: Zoom (Kyiv time, UTC+3 in May).
Language: English.
Fees: None.
Contact: [email protected]