Thursday, 29th October 2020 – Through Webex
9:15-9:30 Opening address
Olaf Sleijpen (DNB, Chief Economist)
Session I: Monetary Policy and the Short Run
Chair: Jakob de Haan (DNB, University of Groningen)
9:30-10:00 Monetary Policy when the Phillips Curve is Locally Quite Flat
Paul Beaudry (UBC), Chenyu Hou (UBC) and Franck Portier* (UCL) Paper Presentation
10:00-10.15 General Discussion
10:15-10.30 Break
10:30-11:00 Hitting the Elusive Inflation Target
Francesco Bianchi (Duke), Leonardo Melosi (Chicago FED), Matthias Rottner* (EUI) Paper Presentation
11:00-11:15 General Discussion and End of Session
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Keynote, Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge) Presentation
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
SESSION II: Monetary Policy, Households and Banks
Chair: Christiaan Pattipeilohy (DNB, Head of Monetary Policy Department)
13:30-14:00 Household Balance Sheet Channels of Monetary Policy: A Back of the Envelope Calculation for the Euro Area
Jiri Slacalek* (ECB), Oreste Tristani (ECB) and Giovanni L.Violante (Princeton) Paper Presentation
14:00-14:15 General Discussion
14:15-14:45 The Tipping Point: Low Rates and Financial Stability
Davide Porcellacchia (ECB) Paper Presentation
14:45-15:00 General Discussion
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:15 Keynote, Amir Sufi (University of Chicago) Presentation
16:15-16:30 Break
SESSION III: Monetary Policy and the Long Run
chair: Aerdt Houben (DNB, Head of Financial Markets Division)
16:30-17:00 The Long-Run Effects of Monetary Policy
Òscar Jordà (UC Davis), Sanjay Singh (UC Davis) and Alan Taylor* (UC Davis) Paper Presentation
17:00-17:15 General Discussion and End of the Meeting