Conferences, workshops and seminars
Upcoming
2026
- 22–23 June 2026 – Third Annual Czech National Bank Conference
- 10–11 December 2026 – Third Czech National Bank Workshop on Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy
2025
- 11–12 December 2025 – Second Czech National Bank Workshop on Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy
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
- 3 February 2026 – CNB Research Seminar by Michele Lenza (ECB)
- 18 February 2026 – CNB Research Seminar by Volker Nitsch (TU Darmstadt)
- 11 March 2026 – CNB Research Seminar by Stephanie Ettmeier (CERGE-EI)
- 27 March 2026 – CNB Research Seminar by Georgios Georgiadis (ECB)
2025
- 1 October 2025 – CNB Research Seminar "Estimates of the Fiscal Multipliers for the Czech Republic" by Jan Čapek
- 8 October 2025 – CNB Research Seminar by Steven Ongena
- 14 October 2025 – CNB Research Seminar "What flattens the supply curve?" by Mathias Klein
- 22 October 2025 – CNB Research Seminar by Andrej Cupák
- 27 November 2025 – CNB Research Seminar by Mathias Trabandt
Latest highlights
Second Czech National Bank Workshop on Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy
Keynotes:
- Jon Frost (BIS) (pdf, 5 MB)
- Erlend Nier (IMF) (pdf, 458 KB)
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
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"
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)
- 22 October 2025 – CNB Research Seminar "Reach Me If You Can: How to Boost Participation of Rich Households in Wealth Surveys?" by Andrej Cupák (NBS)
- 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