National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) and Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP) are accepting submissions for Joint NBU-NBP 2021 Annual Research Conference (June 10-11, hybrid format). The conference will focus on reviewing the effectiveness of traditional policy making strategies and tools and evaluation of possible alternatives in both monetary and fiscal areas. 

The two-day event will feature keynotes, policy panels and presentations of research papers in a blended on-line/on-site format. Confirmed keynote speakers are Alan Blinder (Princeton University) and Mikhail Golosov (University of Chicago).

The organizing committee invites submissions in the following areas (non-exhaustive)

• The effectiveness of monetary policy tools and strategies
• Interactions between macroprudential, monetary and fiscal policies
• Post-pandemic growth in the time of high indebtedness
• New questions or new policy objectives in need of dedicated tools?
• Climate change, inequality, and limits of the central bank mandate

Academic committee:

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley (chair)
Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Bank of Canada
Michał Brzoza-Brzezina, Narodowy Bank Polski
Krzysztof Makarski, Narodowy Bank Polski
Solomiya Shpak, National Bank of Ukraine
Mihnea Constantinescu, National Bank of Ukraine

Paper Submission:

Submit your paper by email to conference@bank.gov.ua, using as email subject ARC2021 NameOfPaper NameFirstAuthor. No submission fee is charged. The deadline for submission is 14 March 2021 (12 pm EET). Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 21 April 2021.