Conferences, workshops and seminars
Upcoming
Information on registration options for the forthcoming events is available on the individual event pages (when registration is open).
2026
- 6 October 2026 – Conference on New Challenges for Central Banks
- 7–8 December 2026 – Third Czech National Bank Workshop on Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy – Call for Papers
The seminars take place in the CNB building or online, are conducted in English and last for about an hour to an hour and a half. Attendance is limited to invited participants only.
2026
- 15 September 2026 – CNB Research Seminar by Anton Nakov (ECB)
- 5 October 2026 – CNB Research Seminar by Marta Cota (Nova SBE)
- 5 November 2026 – CNB Research Seminar by Marek Jarocinski (ECB)
- 25 November 2026 – CNB Research Seminar by John Burger (Loyola University Maryland)
Latest highlights
Third Annual Czech National Bank Conference
Keynotes:
- Luc Laeven (ECB)
- Neeltje Van Horen (University of Amsterdam)
CNB Seminar on Crypto: A Macroprudential Perspective
Keynotes:
- Richard Portes (London Business School) (pdf, 2 MB)
Annual International Journal of Central Banking Research Conference
Keynotes:
- Michelle W. Bowman (FED) (speech)
Past events
2026
- 22–23 June 2026 – Third Annual Czech National Bank Conference – Safeguarding Stability in Unstable World
- 15 May 2026 – Research Connect Conference – Building connections within the Czech economics community
2025
- 11–12 December 2025 – Second Czech National Bank Workshop on Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy
- 25–26 September 2025 – Second Annual Czech National Bank Conference
- 23–24 June 2025 – Annual IJCB Research Conference on Assessing the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic, hosted by the Czech National Bank and the International Journal of Central Banking
- 1 April 2025 – CNB Workshop on Monetary Policy: Inflation Targeting Frameworks Under Review
- 20–21 March 2025 – Conference on Real-Time Data Analysis, Methods, and Applications
2024
- 17–18 December 2024 – CNB Workshop on Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy
- 28 November 2024 – CNB Workshop on Households’ Inflation Expectations
- 13–14 June 2024 – Monetary and financial stability policies in a changing economic landscape
- 16–17 May 2024 – Heterogeneous Agents in Macroeconomic Models
2023
- 2 October 2023 – Economic Conference (in Czech only) within the Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic
- 15 May 2023 – CNB Research Open Day
2022
- 28 June 2022 – Market flexibility and monetary integration
- 23 May 2022 – CNB Research Open Day
2021
- 6 December 2021 – Workshop “Exchange Rate: A Shock Absorber or a Shock Generator?”
- 13 September 2021 – CNB Research Open Day
- 30 August – 1 September 2021 – Conference on Expectations in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models
2020
- 1–2 October 2020 – Annual Workshop of the ESCB Research Cluster 3 on Financial Stability, Macroprudential Regulation and Microprudential Supervision
- Fall 2020 – CNB Research Open Day (cancelled)
- 21–23 September 2020 – Conference on Expectations in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models (cancelled)
2019
- 3 July 2019 – Joint Czech National Bank/European Central Bank/European Systemic Risk Board Workshop on Sources of structural systemic risk in the financial system: identification and measurement
- 27 May 2019 – CNB Research Open Day
- 16-17 May 2019 – Conference The Future of Monetary Policy: What Can We See as the Dust Has Settled?
2018
- 21 May 2018 – CNB Research Open Day
2017
- 19–20 June 2017 – Annual International Journal of Central Banking Research Conference (pdf, 136 kB)
- 15 May 2017 – CNB Research Open Day
2016
- 6–7 October 2016 – CNB-IES Conference
- 16 May 2016 – CNB Research Open Day
- 21–22 April 2016 – 12th CompNet Conference
2015
- 18 May 2015 – CNB Research Open Day
Previous Conferences
- 12 May 2014 – CNB Research Open Day
- 13 May 2013 – CNB Research Open Day
- 27–29 June 2012 – Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, CEF 2012, Prague
- 21 May 2012 – CNB Research Open Day
- 24 May 2011 – CNB Research Open Day
- 25 May 2010 – CNB Research Open Day
- 26 May 2009 – CNB Research Open Day
- 20–21 October 2008 – 11th conference ECB-CFS Research Network "The Market for Retail Financial Services: Development, Integration, and Economic Effects"
- 6 May 2008 – CNB Research Open Day 2008
- 8 April 2008 – Conference to 15th anniversary of the Czech National Bank and the 10th anniversary of inflation targeting
- 28-30 June 2007 – Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Conference
- 22 May 2007 – CNB Research Open Day 2007
- 3–4 May 2007 – Eurosystem Wage Dynamics Network meeting
- 16 May 2006 – CNB Research Open Day 2006
- 14 September 2005 – CNB Research Open Day 2005
- 2005 – Prague-Budapest Spring Workshop in Macroeconomic theory
- 4–5 June 2004 – The CNB/CERGE-EI Macro Workshop
- 2003 – Conference of the Prague School of Economics - jointly with the CNB "Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets"
- 2001 – Conference marking the 75th anniversary of the establishment of central banking in the Czech Republic, on the theme "Integration into the EU and EMU: Challenges of nominal and real convergence"
2026
- 10 June 2026 – CNB Research Seminar "Coordinated Settlement in a Tokenised Financial System: Implications for Cross-Border Payments" by Priscilla Koo Wilkens (BIS)
- 3 June 2026 – CNB Research Seminar "The Evolving Nexus: Sovereigns, Banks and NBFIs" by Bryan Hardy (BIS)
- 26 May 2026 – CNB Research Seminar "Risks and Uncertainty in Monetary Policy" by Domenico Giannone (Johns Hopkins University)
- 15 April 2026 – CNB Research Seminar "Reach Me if You Can: How to Boost Participation of Rich Households in Wealth Surveys?" by Andrej Cupák (NBS)
- 31 March 2026 – CNB Research Seminar "Global house prices since 1950" by Roman Šustek (Queen Mary University)
- 27 March 2026 – CNB Research Seminar "From Brussels to Bangkok: How Investment Funds Transmit Financial Spillovers" by Georgios Georgiadis (ECB)
- 17 March 2026 – CNB Research Seminar "Going Backwards: Firm-Level Responses to Geopolitical Tensions" by Volker Nitsch (TU Darmstadt)
- 11 March 2026 – CNB Research Seminar "Measuring the Effects of Aggregate Shocks on Unit-Level Outcomes and Their Distribution" by Stephanie Ettmeier (CERGE-EI)
- 3 February 2026 – CNB Research Seminar "Do We Need Firm Data To Understand Macroeconomic Dynamics?" by Michele Lenza (ECB)
2025
- 17 December 2025 – CNB Research Seminar "The Global Credit Cycle and Local Economic Activity" by Nina Boyarchenko (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
- 27 November 2025 – CNB Research Seminar "Monetary Policy and Inflation Scares" by Mathias Trabandt (Goethe University)
- 14 October 2025 – CNB Research Seminar "What Flattens the Supply Curve?" by Mathias Klein (Sveriges Riksbank)
- 8 October 2025 – CNB Research Seminar "The Impact of Pay Transparency on Bank Compensation, Employment, Performance and Opacity" by Steven Ongena (University of Zurich)
- 1 October 2025 – CNB Research Seminar "Estimates of the Fiscal Multipliers for the Czech Republic" by Jan Čapek (Masaryk University)
- 26 September 2025 – CNB Research Seminar "Crypto: A Macroprudential Perspective" by Richard Portes (London Business School)
- 3 September 2025 – CNB seminar "NBS semi-structural model"
Martin Feješ, Miro Gavura & Michal Marenčak (National Bank of Slovakia) - 30 July 2025 – CNB seminar "The Conduct of LTV Policy under Inflationary Shocks"
Margarita Rubio (University of Nottingham) - 23 July 2025 – CNB seminar "Rationing Under Sticky Prices"
Tom Holden (Deutsche Bundesbank) - 2 July 2025 – CNB seminar "Projection process at the Deutsche Bundesbank"
Britta Hamburg, Thomas Haertel & Thomas Bohm (Deutsche Bundesbank) - 4 June 2025 – CNB seminar "Fed FRB/US model"
Jean-Philippe Laforte & Hess T. Chung (Federal Reserve Board) - 28 May 2025 – CNB seminar "Hedging Against Inflation: International Evidence on Investor Clientele Effects in the Bond Market"
Martijn Boermans (De Nederlandsche Bank) - 26 May 2025 – CNB seminar "NBP NECMOD model"
Michał Hulej (National Bank of Poland) - 21 May 2025 – CNB seminar "Payment Initiation and Transaction Costs"
Alistair Milne (Loughborough Business School) - 21 May 2025 – CNB seminar "Can Growth Stabilize Debt? A Fiscal Theory Perspective"
Michaela Elfsbacka Schmöller (European Central Bank) - 14 May 2025 – CNB seminar "Firms’ Performance and Weather Impacts. Evidence from a Small Open Economy"
Vladimir Otrachshenko (National Bank of Slovakia) - 28 April 2025 – CNB seminar "Leverage actually: the impact on banks’ borrowing costs in euro area money markets"
Anna Samarina (De Nederlandsche Bank) - 9 April 2025 – CNB seminar "Generative AI as Routine-Biased Technical Change? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Central Banking"
Aleš Maršal (National Bank of Slovakia) - 1 April 2025 – CNB seminar "Risk in a Data Rich model"
Haroon Mumtaz (Queen Mary University of London) - 19 March 2025 – CNB seminar "The Rise of Generative AI: Modelling Exposure, Substitution and Inequality Effects on the US Labour Market"
Josef Švéda (Czech National Bank) - 5 March 2025 – CNB seminar "ECB-BASE model"
Srečko Zimic (European Central Bank) - 26 February 2025 – CNB seminar "Bank of Canada LENs model"
Olivier Gervais (Bank of Canada)
2024
- 3 December 2024 – CNB seminar "Interaction of Monetary and Macroprudential Policy"
Markus Behn (European Central Bank) - 29 November 2024 – CNB-CES keynote lecture
Evi Pappa (Uni Carlos III, Madrid) - 29 October 2024 – CNB seminar "Bank Specialization and Corporate Innovation"
Olivier De Jonghe (National Bank of Belgium) - 15 October 2024 – CNB seminar "Climate Stress Testing"
Roman Vasiľ (National Bank of Slovakia) - 17 September 2024 – CNB seminar "Global Political Ties and the Global Financial Cycle"
Gene Ambrocio (Bank of Finland) - 27 August 2024 – CNB seminar "Credit Supply and Green Investment"
Emilia Garcia-Appendini (Norges Bank, University of St Gallen) - 18 June 2024 – CNB seminar "The Price of War"
Jonathan Federle (Kiel Institute)
Previous Seminars
- 25 November 2016 – CNB-CES seminar: "Insider-Outsider Labor Markets, Hysteresis and Monetary Policy" (pdf, 92 kB)
Jordi Galí, Universitat Pompeau Fabra, CREI. - 8 September 2016 – CNB-CES seminar "The Macroeconomics of Central Bank Issued Digital Currencies" (pdf, 935 kB)
Michael Kumhof (Bank of England) - 21 March 2016 – CNB-CES seminar "Fiscal and Financial Crises“, Paper (pdf, 805 kB), Presentation (pdf, 1.5 MB)
Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University & NBER - 18 September 2012 – CNB-CES-IES seminar "Rethinking the Role of the State in Finance: World Bank’s View"
Martin Čihák (World Bank, Member of the CNB Research Advisory Committee) - 11 June 2012 – CNB-CERGE seminar "Monetary Policy, Liquidity and Growth" (pdf, 389 kB)
prof. Philippe Aghion, Harvard University - 25 November 2011 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Asset-price Boom-bust Cycles and Credit: What Is the Scope of Macro-prudential Regulation?" (pdf, 2.9 MB)
Laurent Clerc, Banque de France - 24 November 2011 – CNB seminar "Macro-prudential Policy and the Conduct of Monetary Policy" (pdf, 405 kB)
Laurent Clerc, Banque de France - 27 September 2010 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "The Central-Bank Balance Sheet as an Instrument of Monetary Policy" (pdf, 562 kB)
Michael Woodford, Columbia University - 21 May 2010 – CNB seminar "Macro-Finance Models of Interest Rates and the Economy"
Glenn Rudebusch, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 20 May 2010 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "U.S. Economic Developments and Monetary Policy" (pdf, 38 kB)
Glenn Rudebusch, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 14 April 2010 – CNB seminar "Failure to Communicate? Central Bank Guidance in Good Times and in Bad"
Pierre Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University - 13 April 2010 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Financial Frictions and Credit Spreads" (pdf, 804 kB)
Pierre Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University - 20 January 2010 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Monetary Discipline, Global Currencies, and the Crisis in Eastern Europe"
Adam Posen, Bank of England - 3 December 2009 – CNB seminar "Reassessing the Regulatory Role of the Fed: Grappling with the Dual Mandate and More?"
Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia Business School - 2 December 2009 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game"
Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia Business School - 1 July 2009 – CNB seminar "Large Bayesian VARs and the Credit Cycle in the Euro Area"
Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School - 30 June 2009 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Business cycles in the Euro Area"
Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School - 16 April 2009 – CNB seminar "Efficient Likelihood Evaluation of State-Space Representations"
David De Jong, University of Pittsburgh - 15 April 2009 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Macroeconomics in Crisis: Implications for Policymakers"
David De Jong, University of Pittsburgh - 1 December 2008 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Ten Years of EMU: Convergence, Divergence and New Priorities" (pdf, 92 kB)
Nikos Christodoulakis, London School of Economics - 28 November 2008 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Rule-of-Law: New Paradigm after Failed Washington Consensus- or Natural Follow-up to its Success? The Case of Transition Economies since 1989" (pdf, 281 kB)
Oleh Havrylyshyn, University of Toronto - 12 September 2008 – CNB seminar "Financial Development, Policies, and Reforms in Open Economies"
Giuseppe Bertola, Universita di Torino - 11 September 2008 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Public and Private Insurance" (pdf, 245 kB)
Giuseppe Bertola, Universita di Torino - 6 May 2008 – CNB seminar "A Two-Step Estimator for Large Approximate Dynamic Factor Models Based on Kalman Filtering"
Lucrezia Reichlin, European Cental Bank - 9 April 2008 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Robustness Issues in the Model Building" (pdf, 414 kB)
Thomas J. Sargent, New York University - 26 March 2008 – CNB seminar "DSGE Models: Problems and few Suggested Solutions"
Fabio Canova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - 25 March 2008 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Do Expectations Matter? The Great Moderation Revisited"
Fabio Canova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - 18 September 2007 – CNB seminar "Unemployment, Inflation and Monetary Policy"
Carl E. Walsh, University of California - Santa Cruz - 17 September 2007 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Inflation Targeting and the Role of Real Objectives" (pdf, 209 kB)
Carl E. Walsh, University of California - Santa Cruz - 28 June 2007 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Defining Recent and Prospective Developments in Monetary Policy"
Lars Svensson, Sveriges Riksbank - 4 May 2007 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Inflation Persistence, Price Persistence and Optimal Monetary Policy" (pdf, 1,5 MB)
Frank Smets, European Central Bank - 3 May 2007 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Unemployment Duration: Has Long Become Longer or Short Become Shorter?" (pdf, 263 kB)
Pedro Portugal, Banco de Portugal - 25 November 2006 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Do Tax Incentives Increase Retirement Saving?" (pdf, 166 kB)
Richard Disney, University of Nottingham - 24 November 2006 – CNB seminar "Does Increased Housing Wealth Lead to Overindebtedness?"
Richard Disney, University of Nottingham - 3 November 2006 – CNB seminar "Challenges in Assessing and Safeguarding Financial Stability"
Garry Schinasi, International Monetary Fund - 2 November 2006 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Defining Financial Stability and the Public Sector's Role" (pdf, 584 kB)
Garry Schinasi, International Monetary Fund - 21 June 2006 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Recent Developments in Macroeconometric Modeling for Policy Analysis" (pdf, 235 kB)
Adrian Pagan, Australian National University - 22 February 2006 – CNB seminar "Does Inflation Targeting Make a Difference?"
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Central Bank of Chile - 21 February 2006 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Does Oppenness Imply Greater Exposure? " Presentation (pdf, 96 kB), Paper (pdf, 230 kB)
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Central Bank of Chile - 8 September 2005 – CNB seminar "Endogenous Money, Inflation and Welfare"
Finn E. Kydland, Carnegie Mellon University - 7 September 2005 - CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Quantitative Aggregate Economics"
Finn E. Kydland, Carnegie Mellon University - 14 April 2005 – CNB seminar "A presentation on the Risks and Policy Options in the U.S."
Stephen Cecchetti, Brandeis University - 14 April 2005 - CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Should Central Bankers Respond to Asset Price Movements: Theory and Evidence" (pdf, 254 kB)
Stephen Cecchetti, Brandeis University - 18 March 2005 – CNB seminar "Spline GARCH as a Measure of Unconditional Volatility and its Global Macroeconomic Causes"
Robert F. Engle, New York University - 17 March 2005 - CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Downside Risk: Implications for Financial Management" (pdf, 366 kB)
Robert F. Engle, New York University - 27 November 2004 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "FED and FOMS Transparency"
William Poole, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 26 November 2004 – CNB seminar "Maintaining Financial Stability: A Central Banker's Perspective"
William Poole, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 12 November 2004 – CNB seminar "Fiscal Policy Reforms Prior to the Euro"
Nicos Christodoulakis, Greek Parliament - 11 November 2004 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Real and Nominal Convergence to EMU: Reforms, Harmonization and transeuropean Initiatives" (pdf, 40 kB)
Nicos Christodoulakis, Greek Parliament - 23 April 2004 – CNB seminar "Money- and Exchange-Rate-Based Disinflation in a Redux Model with Staggered Wage Setting"
Neil Rankin, University of Warwick - 21 April 2004 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Dynamic General Equilibrium Models in Macroeconomics"
Neil Rankin, University of Warwick - 12 December 2003 – CNB seminar "Monetary Policy Orientation in Times of Low Inflation"
Juergen von Hagen, Center for European Integration Studies - 11 December 2003 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Fiscal Sustainability in EMU From the Stability and Growth Pact to a Stability Council for EMU" (pdf, 204 kB)
Juergen von Hagen, Center for European Integration Studies - 31 October 2003 – CNB seminar "Are Changes in Financial Structure Extending Safety Nets? "
William R. White, Bank for International Settlements - 31 October 2003 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Monetary and Financial Stability: How to Find Reinforcing Anchots?" (pdf, 647 kB)
William R. White, Bank for International Settlements - 20 June 2003 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Sovereing Debt Rectructurings"
Nouriel Roubini, Stern School of Business - 23 November 2002 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Monetary Integration in Europe" (pdf, 92 kB)
David Begg, University of London - 2 October 2002 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Prospects of Unilateral Euro-Isation in EU Accession Candidate Countries" (pdf, 680 kB)
Mario Nuti, London Business School - 29 April 2002 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "The Stability and Growth Pact Meets the Accession Countries: What Happens?" (pdf, 737 kB)
Willem Buiter, London School of Economics and Political Science - 5 April 2002 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Inflation Targeting: International Experience" (pdf, 320 kB)
Frederic Mishkin, Columbia Business School - 25 September 2001 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Density Forecasts of Inflation"
Kenneth F. Wallis, University of Warwick - 16 May 2001 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "Moral Hazard and Orderly Bank Exit" (pdf, 138 Kb)
David Mayes, Bank of Finland - 18 April 2001 – CNB-CERGE-CSE seminar "The State of the Phillips Curve" (pdf, 92 kB)
Laurince Ball, Johns Hopkins University