Banca d’Italia will host a conference on Macroeconomic Modelling in Times of Uncertainty in Rome on September 24–25, 2026.
The event will bring together academics and policymakers to discuss new approaches to measuring uncertainty and assessing its macroeconomic effects using micro and macro data.
Topics include the measurement of uncertainty, uncertainty shocks and business cycles, firm and household behaviour under uncertainty, monetary and fiscal policy transmission, forecasting and scenario analysis, and advances in solving and estimating macroeconomic models.
Keynote speakers: Dario Caldara (Federal Reserve Board) and Barbara Rossi (European University Institute and Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
Researchers are invited to submit theoretical or empirical papers by April 15, 2026. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by June 15, 2026. Travel and accommodation support is available for academic speakers (subject to a cap).