Live - ECB Conference on Monetary Policy 2026 (Day 1)

“ECB Conference on Monetary Policy 2026: bridging science and practice”, Monday, 5 and Tuesday, 6 October 2026, Frankfurt am Main (Hybrid event). The 9th Conference on Monetary Policy features once more an impressive academic line-up and is held as a hybrid event. The three conference sessions tackles issues related to monetary policy, including the role of financial markets and financial intermediaries in monetary policy transmission, and with relation to the current situation of elevated economic and geopolitical uncertainty. A special session showcases monetary policy related research by young economists. See the conference programme here: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/conferences/html/20261005_monetary_policy_conf.en.html - Keynote speech: Diagnostic challenges for monetary policy Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank - Session 1 Monetary policy and inflation Chair: Sujit Kapadia, European Central Bank - Productivity and Inflation Dynamics Jenny Chan*, Bank of England Co-Authors: Silvana Terneyro, Ludovica Ambrosino Discussant: Evi Pappa, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Risks and Uncertainty in Monetary Policy Domenico Giannone*, Johns Hopkins University Discussant: Juan Rubio-Ramírez, Emory University - Session 2 Monetary policy, credit and banking Chair: Carlo Altavilla, European Central Bank - Dynamic Competition for Sleepy Deposits Adi Sunderam*, Harvard Business School Co-Authors: Mark Egan, Ali Hortacsu, Nathan Kaplan, and Vincent Yao Discussant: Simone Lenzu, Cambridge University - Bank Runs with and without Failure Stephan Luck*, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Co-Authors: Sergio Correia, Emil Verner Discussant: Elena Carletti, Bocconi University - Keynote speech: Valery Ramey, Stanford University Chair: Roberto Motto, European Central Bank - Closing remarks and end of day 1