Annual Workshop: ESCB Research Cluster 2Dublin, 23-24 October 2025

The Central Bank of Ireland and Banca d'Italia are pleased to announce the Ninth Annual Workshop of the ESCB Research Cluster 2, to be held at the Central Bank of Ireland in Dublin, on 23-24 October 2025.

Research Cluster 2 focuses on issues related to international macroeconomics, fiscal policy, labour economics, competitiveness, and EMU governance. The Annual Workshop seeks to foster awareness and collaboration in research initiatives across institutions, and so submissions will be considered over a wide range of topics. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome. The workshop is open to European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and Bank of England (BoE) researchers only.

Keynote speakers will be Swati Dhingra (LSE and Bank of England) and Gianmaria Milesi Ferretti (Brookings Institution).

ESCB authors are invited to submit a draft paper or extended abstract, in PDF format, by 2 June 2025 writing to researchcluster2@centralbank.ie. For more details, see the call for papers available here.

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