Annual Monetary and Financial Policy Conference
The MMF Society arranges an annual policy conference. The event brings together senior policymakers and academics to discuss pertinent policy questions in money, macro and finance of the day.
Bank of England Watchers’ Conference 2023
3 November 2023, 08:15 to 17:30
Institution of Engineering and Technology, London
This annual conference brings together policymakers, market economists and leading academics to discuss current issues in monetary and financial stability policy with a deliberate focus on the UK. The event is being jointly organised by the Money Macro Finance Society and King's Business School at King’s College London.
The purpose of the conference, which was inspired by the well-known European Central Bank Watchers’ Conference and the US Monetary Policy Forum, was to bring together leading academics, policymakers, and financial market practitioners to discuss and debate salient policy issues facing the Bank of England at this juncture.
Programme
Programme subject to change.
8.15 - 8.50 Registration & coffee
8.50 - 9.00 Welcome
9.00 - 10.00: Keynote speech: Andrew Hauser (Bank of England)
Chair: Claire Jones (Financial Times)
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee
10.30 - 12.00: Panel 1: Monetary policy
Panellists: Silvana Tenreyro (LSE), Rob Wood (Bank of America), Kristin Forbes (MIT)
Chair: Phil Aldrick (Bloomberg)
12.00 - 13.00: Lunch
13.00 - 14.30: Panel 2: Bank of England accountability
Panellists: George Bridges (House of Lords), Kate Barker, Martin Wolf (Financial Times)
Chair: Ben Chu (BBC)
14.30 - 15.30: Keynote speech: Tobias Adrian (International Monetary Fund)
Chair: Rachana Shanbhogue (The Economist)
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee
16.00 - 17.30: Panel 3: Labour market dynamics
Panellists: Jonathan Haskel (Bank of England), Alan Manning (LSE), Katharine Neiss (PGIM Fixed Income)
Chair: Lea Paterson (Independent Non Executive Director and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development)
Past Conferences
| Date | Location | Theme | Programme |
| 24 November 2022 | Bank of England Watchers' Conference | Asset Purchases, Inflation, Independence and Accountability | MMF Monetary and Financial Policy Conference 2022 |
| 28 & 30 September 2021, 4, 6 & 8 October 2021 |
7th Annual Monetary and Financial Policy Conference 2021 | Climate Change | MMF Monetary and Financial Policy Conference 2021 |
| 19-23 October 2020 | Virtual Conference Webinars | Covid-19 | MMF Monetary and Financial Policy Conference 2020 |
| 15 October 2019 | Bloomberg European Headquarters, 3 Queen Victoria Street, London | Inflation Targeting Revisited | MMF Monetary and Financial Policy Conference 2019 |
| 20 November 2018 | Bloomberg European Headquarters, 3 Queen Victoria Street, London | The Central Bank Balance Sheet as a Tool of Monetary Policy | MMF Monetary and Financial Policy Conference 2018 |
| 2 October 2017 | London Institute of Banking & Finance, 36 Monument Street, London | Unconventional Monetary Policy in the UK | MMF Monetary and Financial Policy Conference 2017 |
| 7 October 2016 | Bloomberg London, City Gate House, London | Financial Stability Policy | MMF Monetary and Financial Policy Conference 2016 |
| 25 September 2015 | Bloomberg London, City Gate House, London | The Housing Market and Macroeconomic Policy | MMF Monetary and Financial Policy Conference 2015 |