2025 CEMLA Conference - XXIX Meeting of the Central Bank
Researchers' Network

The CEMLA - Central Banking Researchers Network Conference is one of CEMLA's flagship events, being one of the oldest conferences in Latin America. This 2025 will represent its thirtieth edition. Since its first edition, it has brought together researchers from member central banks in a space to share and discuss ideas and research projects. It has effectively brought together the variety of research interests of its members, so that its organization is also transversal to CEMLA's substantive areas.

One of the main innovations introduced in the last editions is related to the participation of internationally renowned scholars in the keynote lectures of the Conference. These include Dimitrios Tsomocos (University of Oxford) and Gianluca Violante (Princeton University) in 2019, Raghuram G. Rajan (University of Chicago) in 2020, Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics) in 2021, Enrique G. Mendoza (University of Pennsylvania) and Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana (Boston College) in 2022, Michele Boldrin (Washington University in St. Louis) and Saki Bigio (UCLA) in 2023; and, David Andolfatto (University of Miami) and Pablo Kurlat (University of Southern California) are scheduled in 2024. A scientific committee composed of researchers from U.S. and European universities, central banks and CEMLA has also been introduced to ensure that the papers presented at the Conference are of high quality.

The presence of distinguished speakers and an international scientific committee has attracted authors not only from Latin America, but also from the United States, Canada and Europe; and from institutions such as the IMF, the Federal Reserve Board, the San Francisco Fed, the Chicago Fed, the ECB, the Bank of England, the Banque de France, among others. This has led to a broad spectrum of topics discussed at the Conference, based on the authors' contributions, of frontier and recent interest for central banking, including monetary policy in heterogeneous agent models, unconventional policies, the role of the central bank in the efficient functioning of markets, policy response in a high inflation environment, central bank communication, systemic risk, financial stability, financial climate risk, central bank digital currencies (CBDC), among others.

The design of the Conference has allowed the Membership researchers to be in contact with top researchers in the profession through the exchange, interaction and discussion of ideas, experiences and future lines of research. In addition to the exposure to relevant and recent topics in modern central banking, this has contributed to a higher quality of research papers in subsequent versions of the Membership researchers, leading to greater acceptance for publication of such papers both in the LAJCB, as well as in other top journals in academia. The Conference seeks to become one of the most important networks of researchers worldwide in central banking topics.