Research seminars of Eesti Pank

Economists and people interested in economics are kindly invited to attend the research seminars of Eesti Pank. The goal of the research seminars is to promote exchange of ideas between the central bank, the academic community and economic policy institutions.

Due to limited space and the bank’s security rules, participants are asked to contact Liina Kulu by e-mail [email protected].


Research seminars in 2025

15 May at 11:00
Eva Sierminska (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
Dissecting intergenerational transfers: The inheritance and gift gap over time 

Previous seminars

13 March

Prof Michael Burda (Humboldt University of Berlin)
The Macroeconomics of Cryptocurrencies: Three Easy Pieces

30 January  
Mykola Ryzhenkov (University of Osnabrück)
Financial Frictions, Markups, and Unilateral Trade Liberalization

Research seminars in 2024

12 December 
Timo Kuosmanen (University of Turku)
Can omitted carbon abatement explain productivity stagnation?

5 December
Research award ceremony of Eesti Pank

7 November 
Francesca Loria (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
"Flexible Priors and Restrictions for Structural Vector Autoregressions"

24 October
Andreas Freytag (University of Jena)
"Reconsidering Central Bank Independence"

17 October
Georg Strasser (European Central Bank)
"Inflation heterogeneity across households" 

26 September
Simona Malovaná (Czech National Bank)
"Distributional Effects of Borrower-Based Macroprudential Measures"

23 May
András Borsos (Magyar Nemzeti Bank)
"Firm-level production networks: what do we (really) know?"

16 May
Julia Le Blanc (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission)
"Housing Wealth Across Countries: The Role of Expectations, Institutions and Preferences"

07 March
Fabio Canova (BI Norwegian Business School)
"A way forward: practical DSGE models"

22 February 
Nicolas Gavoille (SSE Riga)
"Off the books, on the hooks? Employment, wages, and labor tax audits"

31 January 
Emmanuel Dhyne (National Bank of Belgium)
"Using B2B transactions data for research and analysis: the experience of the National Bank of Belgium"