23rd BIS Annual Conference
Basel, Switzerland, Friday 28 June 2024
The theme of the 23rd BIS Annual Conference was "Navigating uncharted waters: opportunities and risks for central banks". The sessions focused on risks and opportunities from artificial intelligence, sustainable investment in green finance, geopolitics and the macroeconomy as well as monetary policy in the post-Covid environment. The closing panel discussed the last decade of monetary policy.
The conference proceedings will be published in the BIS Working Paper series in fall 2024.
Conference materials
| Session 1 | Opportunities and risks from artificial intelligence for central banks |
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Chair |
Lesetja Kganyago, South African Reserve Bank |
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Paper |
Artificial intelligence and big holdings data: Opportunities for central banks |
| Speaker |
Ralph S J Koijen, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (presentation) |
| Discussants |
Tania Babina, Columbia Business School (presentation) |
| Session 2 | Sustainable investment in green finance |
| Chair |
Julio Velarde, Central Reserve Bank of Peru |
| Paper | Carbon prices and reforestation in tropical forests |
| Speaker | José A Scheinkman, Columbia University (presentation) |
| Discussants | Tobias Adrian, International Monetary Fund (presentation) Mariassunta Giannetti, Stockholm School of Economics (presentation) |
| Session 3 | Geopolitics and the macroeconomy |
| Chair |
Chang Yong Rhee, Bank of Korea |
| Paper | A theory of economic coercion and fragmentation |
| Speaker |
Matteo Maggiori, Stanford Graduate School of Business (presentation) |
| Discussants |
Javier Bianchi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, University of Minnesota (presentation) |
| Session 4 | Monetary policy in the post-Covid environment |
| Chair |
Tiff Macklem, Bank of Canada |
| Paper |
Trade fragmentation, inflationary pressures and monetary policy |
| Speaker |
Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics and Political Science (presentation) |
| Discussants |
Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Bank of France (presentation) |
| Closing panel | Revisiting the last decade of monetary policy |
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Moderator |
Agustín Carstens, Bank for International Settlements |
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Panellists |
Michele Bullock, Reserve Bank of Australia |