2025 Conference

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

• Ufuk Akcigit (Chicago) - Harry Johnson Lecture (slides) (YouTube)
• Olivier Coibion (UT Austin) (slides) (YouTube)
• Tommaso Monacelli (Bocconi) - Charles Goodhart Lecture (slides) (YouTube)
• Loriana Pelizzon (Goethe, SAFE) (slides) (YouTube)

PROGRAMME

The programme: at a glance and with details of sessions (pdf)

The programme: full latest version (online)

REGISTER

Registration is open on Conference Maker until 31 August. Early-bird is valid through 14 August.

Presenters who do not register by 21 August will have their papers removed from the programme.

REGISTRATION FEES

£336 early-bird rate: to be paid by 14 August 2025, inclusive

£399 full rate: to be paid from 15 August through 31 August 2025, inclusive

£220 student rate: to be paid by 31 August 2025, inclusive

£100 retired seniors rate: to be paid by 31 August 2025, inclusive

additional £60 if the conference dinner option is selected: to be paid by 31 August 2025, inclusive

SPECIAL SESSIONS

Bank of England
New developments in the analysis of housing markets for monetary and macroprudential policy

• Juan Castellanos (BoE): Andrew Hannon, Gonzalo Paz-Pardo: The aggregate and distributional implications of credit shocks on housing and rental markets.
• Tihana Skrinjaric (BoE): Developing a house-price-at-risk model for the UK
• Daniel Albuquerque, Tomas Lazarowicz (UCL), Jamie Lenney: Monetary transmission through the housing sector

CHASM (University of Birmingham)
Financial Literacy, Gender Dynamics, and Sustainable Investing

• Yibo Zhang and Alessandra Guariglia (University of Birmingham): When she holds the purse strings...
• Elisa Castagno, Naomi Oggero, Mariacristina Rossi (University of Turin): Preferences for sustainable investing: the role of financial literacy
• Alessandra Caretta, Elisa Castagno, Elisabetta Giacomel, Emanuela Napoli (Pension Fund Supervision Authority):  Individual choice of the investment options offered by Private Pension Funds: The case of Italy

NIESR
The Move to Net Zero

• Sandra Batten (Bank of England):  Productivity implications of the move to net zero.
• Patricia Sanchez Juanino (NIESR):  Looking-forward to Net zero: How agent’s expectations and policy choices drive economic outcomes in climate scenarios
• Nicola Ranger or Jimena Alvarez (Oxford University):  The macroeconomic impacts of environmental degradation in the UK

LOCAL ORGANISING PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

• Alexander Mihailov, Chair (University of Reading)
• Christos Mavrodimitrakis (University of Reading)
• Anne Päss (University of Reading)
• Li Tang (University of Reading)
• Shixuan Wang (University of Reading)
• Sophie Zhou (University of Reading)

CONFERENCE VENUE

TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION

FURTHER INFORMATION

There will be a Bank of England drinks reception on 8 September 2025 at the HBS lobby, 18:30-19:30. The main conference dinner, which is optional and if selected requires an additional payment upon registration, will be held on 9 September 2025, 19:00-22:30, at the Meadows Suite restaurant in the middle of the University of Reading’s green Whiteknights campus (just 5 minutes walking from the conference venue, HBS – and not in central Reading).

For further information contact the local organising programme committee team, in particular, Li Tang at li.tang@reading.ac.uk