CEPR Conference: The Politics of Regulation and Central Banking 2021 | CEPR - Centre for Economic Policy Research | 12 February 2021 | Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University or Online, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, Netherlands

This is the first edition of an annual conference series on the Political Economy of Finance. Three leading Dutch universities – Erasmus University Rotterdam, Tilburg University, and the University of Amsterdam – will host the annual event in order to build a European platform for researchers in this highly topical area, usually treated separately in economics and finance. For its first edition, the conference will be dedicated to exploring the intersections between political economy and central banking.

The organising committee invites submissions of theoretical and empirical papers on the following topics (the list is non-exhaustive):

• Political institutions and power and the design of banking and monetary unions
• Private interests in banking regulation, supervision, and resolution
• Political independence and the conduct of monetary and financial policies
• Central bank’s mandate in a constitutional democracy
• Political economy considerations of central banks’ economic stimulus programs after a pandemic
• Politics of bailouts, bail-ins, and state aid control in a (partial) banking union
• Political pressures and regulatory capture in a dual national-supranational supervisory architecture
• The economic and political consequences of central bank capture
• Lobbyists, technocrats, and central bankers
• Political economy aspects of a central bank digital currency

2021 Speaker

Francesco Trebbi
Professor of Business and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business