Seminars at the European Central Bank (Frankfurt) and the Bank of International Settlements, 7-9 April 2025

I had the chance to be invited at ECB and BIS to present some recent work on inflation done with Paul Beaudry and Sev Hou (“The Dominant Role of Expectations and Broad-Based Supply Shocks in Driving Inflation“ and “On the Fragility of the Nonlinear Phillips Curve View of Recent Inflation”).

At the ECB, I had the chance to meet and talk with Yann Perdereau, Marie Hoerova, Elmar Mertens, Joan Paredes, Laura Gati, Marek Jarocinski, Peter Karadi, Michaela Elfsbacka-Schmoeller and Oreste Tristani. At the BIS, I had great conversations with Frederic Boissay, Matthias Rottner, Gabor Pinter, Enisse Kharroubi, Douglas Araujo, Marco Lombardi, Ryan Banerjee , Fiorella De Fiore and Cristina Manea. The cherry on the cake was a dinner with Frank Smets and Benoît Mojon.And special thanks to Domniki Oikonomou for organizing this sequence of seminars.

CEPR Paris Symposium, 12-18 December 2024

I attended the CEPR Paris Symposium on 2-18 December 2024 and presented a paper with Paul Beaudry and Sev Hou, “The Dominant Role of Expectations and Broad-Based Supply Shocks in Driving Inflation“.

Thanks to Refet Gürkaynak for putting up a great “Monetary Economics and Fluctuations” program and including me, and to Sciecs Po and Banque de France for hosting the symposium.

Program of the “Monetary Economics and Fluctuations” group was:

• HANKSSON, Florin Bilbiie (University of Cambridge and CEPR) with Sigurd Mølster Galaasen, Refet S. Gürkaynak, Mathis Mæhlum and Krisztina Molnar
• Fiscal Policy and Sectoral Reallocation According to HANK-SAM-IO, Alexey Gorn (University of Liverpool Management School) with Antonella Trigari and Nicolo Rizzotti
• The Dominant Role of Expectations and Broad- Based Supply Shocks in Driving Inflation, Franck Portier (University College London and CEPR) with Paul Beaudry and Chenyu Hou
• Firms’ Pass-Through Dynamics: A Survey Approach, Isabel Gödl-Hanisch (LMU Munich and CEPR) with Manuel Menkhoff
• Quantitative (Liquidity) Tightening, Carlo Altavilla (ECB and CEPR) with Massimo Rostagno and Julian Schumacher
• Dealer balance sheets and bidding behavior in the Bank of England’s QE reverse auctions, Lena Boneva (Swiss National Bank) with Jakub Kastl and Filip Zikes

The Dominant Role of Expectations and Broad-Based Supply Shocks in Driving Inflation, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano, 7 November 2024

I gave a seminar at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore on 7 November 2024 on and presented a paper with Paul Beaudry and Sev Hou, “The Dominant Role of Expectations and Broad-Based Supply Shocks in Driving Inflation“.

Thanks to Tommaso Colussi for inviting me. I also had nice talks with Luca Gerotto, Catalin Dragomirescu-Gaina, Emiliano Santoro, Domenico Delli Gatti, Riccardo Masolo, Maurizio Motolese and a great diner with Riccardo Masolo and Tommaso Tornese.