CNB Research Open Day 2015

Monday, 18 May 2015

Czech National Bank’s Commodity Exchange (Plodinová burza) building, Senovážné nám. 30, Praha 1

Programme

8.30 Registration & Morning Coffee
9.00        Welcome Address: Lubomír Lízal, Board Member, CNB
9.10 CNB Research in 2015 (pdf, 922 kB): Kamil Galuščák, Director of Research Department, CNB
9.20 Keynote Speech “Challenges for Monetary Policy after the Global Financial Crisis: The Case of Israel” (pdf, 781 kB) by Karnit Flug, Governor, Bank of Israel
9.50 Q&A
10.00 CNB’s Economic Research Award and CSE’s Kateřina Šmídková Award Ceremony (pdf, 306 kB)
10.25 Coffee Break
  Chair of the morning session: Michal Franta, CNB
10.45 Adverse Effects of Monetary Policy Signalling,” by Jan Filáček and Jakub Matějů
Presentation (pdf, 433 kB)
11.05 Discussion (pdf, 118 kB): Michalis Rousakis, University of Oxford
11.20 Q&A
11.30 Spillover of the ECB’s Monetary Policy Outside the Euro Area: How Different is Conventional From Unconventional Policy?” by Oxana Babecká Kucharčuková, Peter Claeys and Bořek Vašíček
Presentation (pdf, 537 kB)
11.50 Discussion (pdf, 415 kB): Balazs Egert, OECD
12.05 Q&A
12.15 Lunch (ground floor)
  Chair of the afternoon session: Jan Babecký, CNB
13.30 The Housing Sector over Business Cycles: Empirical Analysis and DSGE Modelling,” by Jan Brůha, Jiří Polanský
Presentation (pdf, 1.3 MB)
13.50 Discussion (pdf, 817 kB): Malik Shukayev, Bank of Canada
14.05 Q&A
14.15 Forecasting Mortgages: Internet Search Data as a Proxy for Mortgage Credit Demand,” by Branislav Saxa
Presentation (pdf, 2 MB)
14.35 Discussion (pdf, 313 kB): Francesco D'Amuri, Bank of Italy
14.50 Q&A


The programme of CNB Research Open Day 2015 can be downloaded also in pdf format (pdf, 148 kB).

Please note that places will be subject to availability owing to the limited capacity of the conference facility.

Registration required (REGISTRATION CLOSED).