Conference on
Incorporating Financial Stability into Inflation Targeting

November 25-26, 2011, Istanbul
Grand Hyatt Istanbul

Participation to the conference is by invitation only.

The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey is organizing a conference on “Incorporating Financial Stability into Inflation Targeting” on November 25-26, 2011, in Istanbul. The conference will bring central bankers and economists at other policy institutions together with academics to present recent advances in theoretical and empirical work on the interaction between financial stability and monetary policy. The main objective of the conference is to discuss new challenges faced by central banks in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

The sessions are organized around two central themes. First theme is on how monetary transmission mechanism would work in a setup that incorporates financial intermediation and financial markets. Transmission channels of macroprudential policy instruments, such as reserve requirements, capital adequacy ratios, loan-to-value ratios, liquidity requirements, or taxes on certain types of short-term capital flows, and policy coordination between central banks and financial/banking supervisors are all within the scope of this theme. Second theme is on the operational framework for incorporating financial stability into an inflation targeting framework. This theme is supported also by country experiences and case studies.

 

Incorporating Financial Stability into Inflation Targeting
Program

 

Friday, November 25, 2011

 

8:00 – 9:00

Registration

 

9:00 – 9:15

Opening remarks

Erdem Başçı, Governor, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Speech

 

9:15 – 10:00

Keynote address

Central banking post-crisis: beyond inflation targeting?

Claudio Borio, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Presentation

 

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

 

 

Session 1
Financial Markets and Macroeconomic Dynamics

Session chair: Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Koç University, Harvard University, NBER, CEPR

 

10:30 – 11:10

Macro-financial linkages: evidence and policy

Ayhan Köse, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

 

11:10 – 11:50

Bank leverage regulation and macroeconomic dynamics

Césaire Meh, Bank of Canada

Paper | Presentation

 

11:50 – 12:30

Reserve requirements for macroeconomic and financial stability – when are they effective?

Pascal Towbin, Bank of France

Paper | Presentation

 

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 – 14:15

Photography session

 

 

14:15 – 15:00

Keynote address

Risk shocks

Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University

Presentation

 

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

 

 

Session 2
Incorporating Financial Stability into Macroeconomic Policies

Session chair: Mehmet Yörükoğlu, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

 

15:30 – 16:10

Issues in extending inflation forecast targeting regimes with countercylical macro prudential rules

Douglas Laxton, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Presentation

 

16:10 – 16:50

Macroprudential policy and the conduct of monetary policy

Benoît Mojon, Bank of France

Paper | Presentation

 

16:50 – 17:30

Curbing the credit cycle: the role of countercyclical macroprudential policies

David Aikman, Bank of England

Paper | Presentation

 

17:30 – 18:10

Liquidity policies and bank lending

Timur Hülagü, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Presentation

 

 

Saturday, November 26, 2011

 

9:00 – 9:45

Keynote address

The credit-to-GDP gap and systemic risk

Frank Smets, European Central Bank (ECB)

Presentation

 

 

Session 3
Financial Crisis and Macroprudential Policies

Session chair: Turalay Kenç, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

 

9:45 – 10:25

Monetary and macroprudential policies: an integrated analysis

Gianluca Benigno, London School of Economics

Paper | Presentation

 

10:25 – 11:05

Macroprudential regulation versus mopping up after the crash

Anton Korinek, University of Maryland

Paper | Presentation

 

11:05 – 11:35

Coffee break

 

 

Panel Session
Capital Flows and the Interaction between Macroprudential Policies and Monetary Policy

Session chair: Erdem Başçı, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

 

11:35 – 13:15

José De Gregorio Rebeco, Governor, Central Bank of Chile

 

Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Brazil

Presentation

 

Erdem Başçı, Governor, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Presentation

 

 

For questions and further information please contact protocol@tcmb.gov.tr.