Research Seminars of Latvijas Banka in 2024

Several times a year, Latvijas Banka holds research seminars. They are mostly intended for enhancing the professional skills of our employees, but other interested parties are also welcome.

If you would like to receive information about the latest research seminars of Latvijas Banka, please write to: redaktors@makroekonomika.lv.

Upcoming seminar

• June 11 – "Capital Budgeting and Reallocation in Banks", Jānis Skrastiņš (Washington University in St. Louis)

Previous seminars

• January 11 – "Relationship Lending and Monetary Policy Pass-Through", Pierre Alexandre Dubuis
• January 15 – "Safety Switches: The Macroeconomic Consequences of Time-Varying Asset Safety", Andrea Foschi (University of Michigan)
• January 17 – "Navigating Extreme Low-Interest Rates: Bank Risk-taking and Macroprudential Policies", Jose D. Garcia Revelo (Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics)
• January 18 – "Macroprudential Foreign Exchange Interventions", Nika Khinashvili (Geneva Graduate Institute)
• January 29 – "Asymmetric and Heterogeneous Investment Responses to Credit Supply Shocks", Konrad Kuhmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Economic Policy)
• January 31 – "Specialized banks and the transmission of monetary policy: Evidence from U.S. syndicated loan market", Gianmarco Ruzzier (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
• February 21 – "The Inflationary Effects of Quantitative Easing", Xin Zhang (Sveriges Riksbank)