The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association will take place virtually Wednesday through Friday, July 7-9, 2021, hosted by the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy and co-organized with the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.

This year parallel sessions will feature 35 contributed sessions on a wide variety of policy-relevant topics. High-level panels will feature James Bullard (President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), Olli Rehn (Governor, Bank of Finland), Refet Gürkaynak (Bilkent University), Carmen Reinhart (World Bank), Paul Tucker (Harvard University), Bénédicte Nolens (BIS Innovation Hub), Henry Ohlsson (Riksbank), Zeti Aziz (formerly Bank Negara Malaysia), and Jim Cunha (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston).

The meeting will commence the morning of Wednesday, July 7 with two high-level panels, presentations on CBDC, a fireside talk with Ben Bernanke (former Chairman of the Federal Reserve), and the first round of parallel sessions. Another high-level panel will take place on the 8th, along with a poster session, further parallel sessions, and the CEBRA Annual Assembly. The 9th will round out the program with three parallel sessions.

The Scientific Committee is chaired by Deborah Lucas (MIT), Loriana Pelizzon (SAFE), and Athanasios Orphanides (MIT).

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOT OPEN TO PRESS