Talks • Conferences • Seminars

A selection of recent presentations, panel contributions, and research seminars. The section concludes with workshops and conferences I have co-organized.

2025

Policy panel on Geopolitical Risks: Facing the Challenges and Finding Opportunities at the 3rd Durham–Bristol Banking Policy Forum (Durham, UK)

Second Annual Czech National Bank Conference (Prague, Czechia). Presented paper: Euroisation and the Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Czechia (*presented by co-author)

ESCB Research Cluster on Climate Change seminar (online). Discussed paper: “Severe Weather and Collateral Practices” by Cristina Cella and Valentin Schubert

2024

13th Biennial Conference of the Czech Economic Society in Prague, Czechia. Presented papers:
- Mutual Funds in Face of Domestic and Foreign Monetary Policy: Insights from Supervisory Data
- Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy: Insights from AnaCredit (*presented by co-author)
- Drying Up: The Effect of Drought on Corporate Loans with AnaCredit Data (*presented by co-author)
- Distributional Effects of Borrower-Based Macroprudential Measures (*presented by co-author)

1st ChaMP Online Workshop. Presented paper: Monetary Policy Has a Long-Lasting Impact on Credit: Evidence from 91 VAR Studies

IBRN Winter Meeting 2024 (IBRN & Banco de México, Mexico City, Mexico). Presented papers: “Mutual Funds in Face of Domestic and Foreign Monetary Policy: Insights from Supervisory Data” and “Climate Risks and Sovereign Risks Nexus” (*presented by co-author)

8th Annual Workshop of the ESCB Research Cluster 3 Workshop on Financial Stability, Macroprudential Regulation and Microprudential Supervision (Banca d’Italia & Bank of Finland, Rome, Italy). Discussed paper: “Market-based finance and the business cycle” by Katharina Cera, Sujit Kapadia, Linda Rousová, and Christian Weistroffer

Research seminar at the Bank of Greece (online). Presented paper: Distributional Effects of Borrower-Based Macroprudential Measures

Research seminar at the Bank of Estonia (Tallinn, Estonia). Presented paper: Distributional Effects of Borrower-Based Macroprudential Measures

SEAM 2024 (Bratislava, Slovakia). Presented paper: Monetary Policy Has a Long-Lasting Impact on Credit: Evidence from 91 VAR Studies

CEBRA Annual Meeting 2024 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
– Presented paper: How Do Climate Policies Affect Holdings of Green and Brown Firms’ Securities?
– Discussed paper: “Pension Liquidity Risk” by Kristy Jansen, Sven Klingler, Angelo Ranaldo, and Patty Duijm

EEA-ESEM Congress 2024 (Rotterdam, Netherlands). Presented paper: How Do Climate Policies Affect Holdings of Green and Brown Firms’ Securities?

First Annual Czech National Bank Workshop on “Monetary and financial stability policies in a changing economic landscape” (Czech National Bank, Prague, Czechia). Discussed paper: “Buying Insurance at Low Economic Cost - The Effects of Bank Capital Buffer Increases Since the Pandemic” by Markus Behn, Marco Forletta, and Alessio Reghezza

BOFIT seminar (Bank of Finland, Helsinki, Finland). Presented paper: Macroprudential Policy and Income Inequality: Trade-off Between Crisis Prevention and Credit Redistribution

2nd Workshop of the ESCB Research Network “Challenges for Monetary Policy Transmission in a Changing World” (ChaMP): Workstream 1 (European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Presented paper: Corporate lending in face of domestic and foreign monetary policy: Insights from AnaCredit

Research Café (Department of Economics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czechia). Presented paper: How Do Climate Policies Affect Holdings of Green and Brown Firms’ Securities?

2023

IBRN Winter Meeting 2023 (IBRN & BIS, Basel, Switzerland). Presented papers: “Mutual Funds Facing Domestic and Foreign Monetary Policy” and “New Cross-country Metric on Climate Transition Risk”

7th Annual Workshop of the ESCB Research Cluster 3 on “Financial Stability, Macroprudential Regulation and Microprudential Supervision” (Bank of Finland & Banco de Portugal, Saariselkä, Finland).
– Discussed paper: “Same Same but Different – Credit Risk Provisioning under IFRS 9” by Markus Behn and Cyril Couaillier
– Presented paper: Macroprudential Policy and Income Inequality: Trade-off Between Crisis Prevention and Credit Redistribution (*presented by co-author)

2nd Annual Workshop of the ESCB Research Cluster 4 on “Climate Change” (ECB, Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Discussed paper: “Carbon Home Bias of European Investors” by Martijn Boermans and Rients Galema

1st Workshop of the ESCB Research Network “Challenges for Monetary Policy Transmission in a Changing World” (ChaMP): Workstream 1 (Banco de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal). Discussed paper: “Low Interest Rates and the Distribution of Household Debt” by Emiris Marina and François Koulischer

Seminar of the ESCB Research Cluster 4 on “Climate Change” (online). Paper: How Do Climate Policies Affect Securities Holdings of Green and Brown Firms?

2023 Annual Meeting of the Central Bank Research Association (New York City, USA). Discussed paper: “Effects of Bank Capital Requirements on Lending by Banks and Non-Bank Financial Institutions” by Peter Bednarek, Olga Briukhova, Steven Ongena, and Natalja von Westernhagen

12th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (Chania, Greece). Paper: What Do Economists Think About the Green Transition? Exploring the Impact of Environmental Awareness

CCBS Macro-finance workshop 2023 (Bank of England, London, United Kingdom). Paper: Monetary policy spillover to small open economies: Is the transmission different under low interest rates?

CNB Research Open Day 2023 (Czech National Bank, Prague, Czechia). Keynote speech: Research at the CNB: Evolution, Current Challenges, and Future Directions

2022

12th Biennial Conference of the Czech Economic Society (Prague, Czech Republic). Paper: Macroprudential Policy and Income Inequality: Trade-off Between Crisis Prevention and Credit Redistribution

XXVII Meeting of the Central Bank Researchers Network (CEMLA, Mexico City, Mexico). Paper: Borrower-Based Macroprudential Measures and Credit Growth: How Biased is the Existing Literature?

Joint ECB & Central Bank of Malta Macroprudential Policy Group (MPPG) research workshop on Macroprudential policy and real estate markets: objectives, effectiveness and new challenges (Central Bank of Malta, Valletta, Malta). Paper: Borrower-Based Macroprudential Measures and Credit Growth: How Biased is the Existing Literature?

MAER-Net Colloquium 2022 (Kyoto, Japan). Paper: Borrower-Based Macroprudential Measures and Credit Growth: How Biased is the Existing Literature?

ESHS Brussels 2022 conference (Brussels, Belgium). Paper: Researching the Research: A Central Banking Edition. Symposium on The Scientization of Central Banks

EEA-ESEM 2022 (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy). Paper: A Tale of Different Capital Ratios: How to Correctly Assess the Impact of Capital Regulation on Lending. Session on Bank Capital Regulation

2021 and earlier

IFABS 2021 Oxford Conference (2021, online). Paper: A Prolonged Period of Low Interest Rates in Europe: Unintended Consequences

17th Annual NBP-SNB Joint Seminar: Modelling of the financial system for systemic risk assessmen (2021 online). Paper: Introducing Macro-Financial Variables into Semi-Structural Model

Joint ECB & Banca d'Italia Macroprudential Policy Group (MPPG) research workshop on Macroprudential policy: effectiveness, interactions and spillovers (2019, Rome, Italy). Paper: The Effect of Higher Capital Requirements on Bank Lending: The Capital Surplus Matters

The 13th Edition of the Seminar on Financial Stability Issues, National Bank of Romania and IMF (2019, Bucharest, Romania). Paper: The Effect of Higher Capital Requirements on Bank Lending: The Capital Surplus Matters

CNB Research Open Day (2018, Prague, Czech Republic). Paper: Banks’ Capital Surplus and the Impact of Additional Capital Requirements

3rd HenU / INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics (2017, Kaifeng, Henan, China). Paper: Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Policy: Rivals or Teammates?

Royal Economic Society PhD Meeting (2017, London, UK). Paper: Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Policy: Rivals or Teammates?

Third Research Workshop of the Task Force on Banking Analysis for Monetary Policy of the MPC (2016, Lisbon, Portugal). Paper: The Interaction of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies in the Pursuit of the Central Bank’s Primary Objectives

The 8th Biennial Conference of the Czech Economic Society (2014, Prague, Czech Republic). Paper: Foreign Exchange Interventions at the Zero Lower Bound in the Czech Economy: A DSGE Approach