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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED. THE NEW DATE WILL SOON BE COMMUNICATED

The world seems not to work as prescribed by standard theory. Why not? Why do monetary policy actions not always elicit the same financial market and real economy responses? What are the empirical regularities and the theories that help us make sense of these?

Bilkent Economics, together with CEPR, is organizing a workshop on monetary economics, with emphasis on heterogeneity of policies and responses to these. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  1. Business cycle asymmetries
  2. Asymmetry of monetary policy responses to financial and real developments
  3. Asymmetry of financial market and real economy responses to monetary policy
  4. The presence and nature of perceived central bank private information effects
  5. The effects of second moments of income/wealth/wage/price distributions on responses of first moments to monetary policy

Jonathan H. Wright (Johns Hopkins University) has agreed to be the keynote speaker of the conference. The organizers welcome submissions of relevant papers. Travel and accommodation expenses for academic speakers on the programme will be covered. The conference is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant No. 726400 "Theory and Empirics of Asymmetry").
The submission deadline is 1 March 2020 (18:00 GMT). Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 15 March 2020.

For CEPR members and for those with a CEPR profile, please submit your paper via the CEPR online system by visiting https://portal.cepr.org/Bilkent-Conf-June-2020. If you do not have a personal profile, you can create one here and then click on the registration link above. If you have any difficulty in applying, please email Mariolina Ciccone in the CEPR events team, at [email protected] with the subject header "40050- Bilkent Conference June-2020".

Organizing Committee:
Refet S. Gürkaynak (Bilkent and CEPR)
Burçin Kisacikoglu (Bilkent)
Sang Seok Lee (Bilkent)
Silvia Miranda-Agrippino (Bank of England and CEPR)
Giovanni Ricco (Warwick and CEPR)