Conference - Monetary policy before, during and after the crisis
Monetary policy before, during and after the crisis
Conference at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Dates: 29-30 September 2011
Please register by 15 September
This conference brings together a group of academic and central bank economists to review the issues around monetary policy before (did it contribute to the crisis, if so how?), during (how and how well have the various measures of 'unconventional monetary policy' worked?) and after (how has the experience of the crisis changed the environment for monetary policy in the future? what lessons should be learned?) the crisis, and to produce a set of papers which will be a key reference on the topic for future researchers. The conference is sponsored by the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) and the Money, Macro & Finance Research Group (MMF).
This is a two-day conference, in which Thursday 29 September is a training day for PhD students and young researchers, while Friday 30 September is the full conference.
Everyone is welcome, to attend one or both days, but to assist catering please register (for one or both days) with Yuka Scott at y.scott@hw.ac.uk no later than Thursday 15 September.
Participants from Scotland will be able to claim travel expenses from SIRE, participants from the rest of the UK will be able to claim travel expenses from the MMF.
Friday speakers include Ed Nelson (Federal Reserve Board), Laurent Clerc (Banque de France), Philip Turner (BIS), Marcus Miller (Warwick Uni), John Driffill (Birkbeck) and Bianca De Paoli (Bank of England).
Further information can be found at http://www.sml.hw.ac.uk/monpolconference/
