Research Seminars of Latvijas Banka 2021

Several times a year, Latvijas Banka holds research seminars. They are mostly intended for enhancing the professional skills of our employees, but other interested parties are also welcome.  

If you would like to receive information about the latest research seminars of Latvijas Banka, please write to: redaktors@makroekonomika.lv.

Research Seminars of Bank of Latvia in 2021

January 6
"The Effects of Trend Infation on Aggregate Dynamics and Monetary Stabilization" - Andrey Alexandrov, University of Mannheim (Germany)

January 8
"The Quadrilemma of a Small Open Circular Economy Through a Prism of the 9R Strategies" - Patrick Grüning, Center for Excellence in Finance and Economic Research (CEFER), Bank of Lithuania (Lithuania)

January 11
"Private Overborrowing under Sovereign Risk" - Fernando I. Arce, University of Minnesota (USA)

January 13
"Quantitative Easing and Direct Lending in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis" - Filippo Occhino, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (USA)

January 14
"Monetary Policy Transmission, Bank Market Power, and Wholesale Funding Reliance" - Amina Enkhbold, University of Toronto (Canada)

January 29
"Firm-level Determinants of TFP Slowdown in Euro Area" - Oļegs Matvejevs ,ECB

March 29
"A Toolkit for Computing Constrained Optimal Policy Projections (COPPs)" - Oliver de Groot, University of Liverpool & CEPR (UK)

April 29
"Forecasting with Economic News" - Luca Barbaglia, EC

May 31
"SARB Experience in Data Management Practices" - Daan Steenkamp, South African Reserve Bank (Republic of South Africa)

June 3
"The Scars of Supply Shocks" - Luca Fornaro, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona GSE and CEPR (Spain)

July 2
"EUROMOD Wealth Extention" - Andreas Thiemann, EC Joint Research Center

October 4
"Exports during the Pandemic" - Pēteris Strautiņš, Luminor (Latvia)