CBBS2021

September 15, Wednesday

15:00 - 17:00

Guided Tour of the NBU’s Money Museum and State Treasury of Ukraine

17:30 - 20:00

Welcome Reception (NBU Central Office, 9 Instytutska St.)

September 16, Thursday (Day 1)

9:00 - 9:30

Coffee and Registration

9:30 - 9:40

Opening Remarks

Mr Kyrylo Shevchenko, National Bank of Ukraine

9:40 - 10:00

Keynote Speech: Survey Data and Monetary Policy

Mr Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley

10:00 - 10:20

Role of the Media in the Inflation Expectation Formation Process

Ms Tetiana Yukhymenko, National Bank of Ukraine

10:20 - 10:40

Australia, COVID-19 and the RBA Regional and Industry Liaison Program

Ms Merylin Coombs, Reserve Bank of Australia

10:40 - 11:00

The Role and Efforts of the Tankan Under the COVID‑19

Mr Junya Takemoto, Bank of Japan

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:35

Regional Economic Information Network. Grassroots policymaking in the pandemic

Mr Anoop Mishra, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

11:35 - 11:55

Monitoring the COVID-19 Impact on Companies and Self-Employed Throughout the Crisis – Belgium

Mr Geert Langenus, National Bank of Belgium

11:55 - 12:15

Taking the Pulse of the Economy: Regional Economic Surveillance During the Pandemic

Ms Nurul Aisyah Mat, Bank Negara Malaysia

12:15 - 12:35

Surveying Migrants During COVID‑19 Pandemic - Methodological and Organizational Challenges

Mr Paweł Strzelecki, Narodowy Bank Polski

12:35 - 12:55

The Riksbank’s Business Survey, Lessons Learnt During the Pandemic - the Importance of Different Sources of Information

Ms Kimberly Doherty, Sveriges Riksbank

12:55 - 14:00

Group Photo and Lunch

14:00 - 14:20

Center Overview and Discussion of the Outreach Lab

Mr Nicholas Parker, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

14:20 - 14:40

Insights into Business’ Price Changing Habits Based on a Multi-National Survey Effort

Mr Marcin Hitczenko, Mr Kevin Foster, Mr Brent Meyer, Mr Nicholas Parker, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

14:40 - 15:00

Measuring the Impact of Uncertainty on the Canadian Economy Using the Bank’s Sectoral Model

Mr Matthieu Verstraete, Bank of Canada

15:00 - 15:15

Break

15:15 - 15:35

Survey Use in Policy-Making During Times of COVID

Ms Sonya Waddell, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

15:35 - 15:55

COVID-19 Community Impact Survey

Mr Nishesh Chalise, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

16:15 - 18:00

Guided Tour of the Saint Sophia Cathedral

19:00 - 22:00

Dinner (Restaurant tbc)

September 17, Friday (Day 2)

8:30 - 9:00

Coffee and Registration

9:00 - 9:20

Firms’ Reaction to the COVID-Crisis in Switzerland

Mr Jean‑Marc Falter, Swiss National Bank

9:20 - 9:40

Measuring Firms’ Inflation Expectations, a 2020-2021 French Experiment

Mr Paul Bouche, Banque de France

9:40 - 10:00

Assessing Reliability of Aggregated Inflation Views in the European Commission Consumer Survey

Ms Maritta Paloviita, Bank of Finland

10:00 - 10:20

Inflation Expectations and the ECB’s Perceived Inflation Objective: Novel Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Mr Giordano Zevi, Bank of Italy

10:20 - 10:40

Are Qualitative Measures of Labour Shortages Reliable Indicators of Labour Market Conditions and Wage Pressures?

Mr Erik Frohm, European Central Bank

10:40 - 11:00

Medium- vs. Short-Term Consumer Inflation Expectations: Evidence From a New Euro Area Survey

Ms Ewa Stanisławska, Narodowy Bank Polski

11:00 - 11:15

Polls via Mobile Application: a New Trend or Just a Fashion?

Mr Yurii Polovnov, National Bank of Ukraine

11:15 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 11:50

Enrichment of French Business Surveys During COVID Crisis

Mr Martial Ranvier, Banque de France

11:50 - 12:10

Uncertainty, Investment and Hiring – Some Evidence from Business‑Survey Data

Mr Łukasz Postek, Narodowy Bank Polski

12:10 - 12:30

Expectations and Uncertainty: an Analysis Based on Italian Firms

Mr Marco Bottone, Bank of Italy

12:30 - 13:40

Lunch

13:40 - 14:00

The Impact of COVID-19 on U.S. Business Expectations and Uncertainty

Mr Brent Meyer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

14:00 - 14:20

Firm's Price Expectations and Empirical Analysis: Business Perspective Survey Argentina

Mr Pedro Elosegui, Central Bank of Argentina

14:20 - 14:40

A Weekly COVID-19 Survey: Costs, Benefits, and Lessons Learned

Mr Paul Flora, Ms Elif Sen, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

14:40 - 15:00

Had Wage Setting Changed in Canada? Evidence from the Early 2020 Pre-Pandemic Wage Setting Survey

Ms Sarah Miller, Bank of Canada

15:00 - 15:30

Break

15:30 - 16:30

Panel discussion

Importance of Surveys for Central Banks. Impact of Central Banks Openness on the Quality of Expectations Data

Moderator:

Mr Brent Meyer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Panelists:

Mr Charles Gascon, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Mr Giordano Zevi, Bank of Italy

Mr Joshua Slive, Bank of Canada

Mr Marco Bottone, Bank of Italy

Mr Mohamed Amine Chadib, Central Bank of Morocco

Mr Richard Morris, European Central Bank

16:30 - 16:40

Closing Remarks

Mr Sergiy Nikolaychuk, National Bank of Ukraine

16:40 - 16:45

Announcement of CBBS2022

Mr Joshua Slive, Bank of Canada