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20th BIS Annual Conference

23–28 June 2021 | virtual
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About the conference

The 20th Annual Conference took the shape of a series of four webinars on "Post-pandemic challenges for central banks", held virtually from 23 to 28 June 2021. 

Video 23 Jun 2021
Bond markets and central banks

Professor Vissing-Jørgensen presents her paper "The Treasury market in spring 2020 and the response of the Federal Reserve".

Video 24 Jun 2021
Fiscal policy, public debt and central banks

Professor Velasco presents "Joined at the hip: monetary and fiscal policy in a liquidity-driven world", a paper co-authored with Guillermo Calvo (Columbia University).

Video 25 Jun 2021
Women in central banking

Cecilia Skingsley moderates a discussion about efforts under way at central banks worldwide to improve gender diversity, with panellists Andréa M Maechler, Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus and Claudia Buch.

Video 25 Jun 2021
Inequality and central banks

Atif Mian speaks about indebted demand, followed by a discussion with Evi Pappa.

Video 28 Jun 2021
The art of central banking in a centrifugal world

This year's lecture was delivered by Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada and former Chair of the Financial Stability Board, on "The art of central banking in a centrifugal world". The lecture has been followed by a panel discussion moderated by BIS General Manager Agustín Carstens.

Conference materials

Annette Vissing-Jørgensen, Professor, Arno A Rayner Chair in Finance and Management and Chair of the Finance Group, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley | working paper 

Andrés Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science | working paper

Moderator 

Cecilia Skingsley, First Deputy Governor, Sveriges Riksbank

Panellists 

  • Andréa M Maechler, Member of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank
  • Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia
  • Claudia Buch, Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank

 

Atif Mian, John H Laporte Jr Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Princeton University | working paper

Mark Carney, Former Governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada and former Chair of the Financial Stability Board