CEBRA’s 2020 annual meeting will be held fully virtually via Cvent and Zoom from September 1st to 3rd. Please register here.
The meeting will commence on Tuesday, 01 Sept, 15.15 (London time) with a high-level policy discussion on Payment Systems and the Future of the International Monetary and Financial System. Minouche Shafik (LSE) will deliver welcome remarks and Hyun-Song Shin (BIS) the keynote. Gita Gopinath (IMF), Philip Lane (ECB), Ricardo Reis (LSE), Hélène Rey (LBS), and Andrès Velasco (LSE) will take part in a high-level panel.
On Wednesday 02 Sept, from 10.50-19.50 & Thursday 03 Sept, from 11.00-19.30 (London time), the main conference takes place and features 36 contributed sessions and a poster sessions on a wide variety of policy-relevant topics, assembled from over high-quality 700 submission.
On the afternoon of Wednesday September 2nd, Ben Broadbent (BoE) will deliver a keynote talk, and the Bank of England will further organize a high level policy panel chaired by Andrew Haldane (BoE) and including Viral Acharya (NYU Stern), Diane Coyle (Cambridge), Darrell Duffie (Stanford), and Andrès Velasco (LSE).
The scientific committee is chaired by Charlie Bean (LSE), Michael Kumhof (BoE), and Ricardo Reis (LSE).
The Public can access parts of the high level part of the meeting: Tuesday 1st September, 15:55 – 16:55p (London time)
Keynote Talk by Hyun Song Shin (BIS) The Economics of Distributed Ledger Technology youtube link (live from 15:55 on September 1st)
Wednesday 2nd September, 15:30- 16:30 (London time)
Keynote Speech: Ben Broadbent, Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy at the Bank of England youtube link (live from 15:30 on September 2nd)
Wednesday 2nd September, 16:30- 17:30 (London time)
High-level Panel by Bank of England: Future research agenda for central banks youtube link (life from 16:30 on September 2nd)
The full academic program can be accessed here.
The registration fee is:
- Free for active participants (session chairs, presenters, and discussants) and CEBRA’s officers
- Free for all staff affiliated with a central bank sponsoring the annual meeting
- UKP 5 for students and members of CEBRA
- UKP 70 for all others
The number of registrations is limited and allocated on a first-come first-serve basis.