Bank of Finland and CEPR Joint Conference on Monetary Economics and Reality

In addition to contributed papers, the programme will feature a keynote address by Andrei Shleifer (Harvard) and presentations by invited speakers: Alberto Martin (CREI), Gianluca Violante (Princeton and CEPR), Ivan Werning (MIT), Mirko Wiederholt (Science Po and CEPR). All presentations will be in plenary sessions and each paper will be assigned a discussant.

The conference will bring together top researchers from academia, central banks, and other policy institutions to present research findings related to monetary economics. Some of the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Effective monetary policy communication
• Cognitive abilities and household behaviour
• Household expectations formation
• Micro-consistent monetary economics
• Heterogeneous agent New Keynesian models

We invite authors to submit completed papers or extended abstracts. Preferences are for completed papers. If you know of a paper that fits the conference theme, please forward this message to the authors.

On local organisation, please contact Ms Liisa Mannila at [email protected].

Organising Committee: Francesco D'Acunto (Boston College), Daniel Hoang (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Seppo Honkapohja (Aalto University and CEPR), Esa Jokivuolle (Bank of Finland), Michael Weber (University of Chicago)