Inflation: Drivers and Dynamics 2025 Conference - Call for papers

This annual conference, hosted by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Center for Inflation Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, brings together top researchers and policymakers from academia, central banks, and other policy institutions to present research findings related to inflation. Virtual attendance is available for individuals who are not presenting or serving as discussants.

Ulrike M. Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley, and Gauti B. Eggertsson, Brown University, will present keynote addresses. Philip R. Lane, ECB Executive Board member, and Beth M. Hammack, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, will provide remarks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• monetary and fiscal policy and inflation dynamics
• inflation expectations
• the impact of economic slack, input costs (including intermediate inputs, energy and commodity prices, and international components of costs), network effects, supply bottlenecks and sectoral dislocations
• micro-level price dynamics and implications for aggregate inflation
• structural determinants of inflation dynamics and trend inflation (including geoeconomic fragmentation, digitalisation, and demographic change)
• inflation and AI / technological advancements
• labour markets, wage, and inflation dynamics

Authors interested in presenting their research related to inflation should submit their papers through Conference Maker. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, 30 April 2025. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 16 June. Presenters and discussants are expected to present in person. All papers presented at the conference will be posted on the websites of the ECB and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

Scientific Committee

Ina Hajdini, Ed Knotek, Damjan Pfajfar, Robert Rich (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland); Elena Bobeica, Sarah Holton, Peter Karadi, Chiara Osbat (ECB)

If you have a question, please contact inflation_conference@ecb.europa.eu.