At our conference "The ECB and Its Watchers XXI" central bankers, financial market participants and academics discussed how the mandate, the instruments and and the strategy of the European Central Bank (ECB) could look like in the future. The conference findings will contribute to the ECB's strategic review. To the summary, video and presentations of the conference.

In an interview, Research Professor Michael Haliassos explains how his work on household finance is connected with the research at the IMFS.

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the European Central Bank's mass bond-buying partly violates the German constitution. IMFS Professors have analyzed the ECB's options after the verdict in a new Working Paper.

The webinar series of the CEPR Network on Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison (MMCN) investigates new macroeconomic models and pandemics. Watch the videos of the webinar sessions or learn more in the papers.