Unconventional Monetary Policy in the UK

9.15: Welcome

9.30 – 11.00 Michael McMahon (Oxford), Tony Yates (Birmingham): The MPC’s communication strategy

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee

11.15 – 12.45 Governor Lars Rohde (Danmarks Nationalbank): The Danish experience with negative interest rates

12.45 – 2.00 Lunch

2.00 – 3.30 Chief Economist Peter Praet (ECB): The Eurozone’s experience with unconventional monetary policy

3.30 – 3.45 Coffee

3.45 – 5.15 Panel session: Lessons learned for the conduct of unconventional monetary policy in the UK, featuring Andrew Benito (GS), Janet Henry (HSBC), Hetal Mehta (LGIM), Ben Nelson (Rokos Capital), Huw van Steenis (Schroders) and Robert Wood (BAML)

Organisers

Richard Barwell (MMF),
Wendy Carlin (UCL),
Jagjit S Chadha (University of Kent, and MMF),
Wouter Den Haan (LSE and CFM),
Mike Dicks (WAM),
John Driffill (Birkbeck College, CFM and MMF),
Douglas Gale (Imperial)
Paul Mortimer-Lee (BNP Paribas),
Paul Mizen (University of Nottingham and MMF),
Andrew Scott (LBS).

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Royal Economics Society and the ESRC. The MMF is a not for profit group fostering research into macroeconomics and gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Bank of England.