We invite all interested stakeholders to participate in the next research seminar to be held at the National Bank of Ukraine from 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. on 16 October 2015.  Dr. Philipp Engler, Professor in Monetary Macroeconomics at Freie Universität (Berlin) is to present the findings of his research on “Sovereign risk, interbank freezes, and aggregate fluctuations”.  The working language of the seminars will be English.

Please follow the link to view the research paper: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1840.en.pdf?517b5e1a115f4873b6d1325781fd17e3.

The seminar to be conducted by Dr. Philipp Engler is the second in a series of public research seminars that the National Bank of Ukraine launched this summer. During these seminars, representatives from the academic community, international financial institutions, other central banks and the National Bank of Ukraine are offered an opportunity to present their research findings and discuss them within a narrow circle of experts. The previous seminar, which was held in July, discussed the research study on “Recent   Developments in Experimental Macroeconomics”.  The research findings were presented by Oleksiy Kryvtsov, a researcher from the Bank of Canada.

In order to participate in a seminar, all interested stakeholders are required  to submit an application indicating surname, name of the applicant, the place of employment, and contact information (telephone, e-mail) by 18.00 p.m. on October 14, 2015 via e-mail to [email protected]. Given the limited seats available, the National Bank of Ukraine reserves the right to accept or reject applications. An applicant will be informed of the results whether the application form is accepted or not by the end of the day on October 15, 2015.

Seminar venue: room 206, 9, Instytutska St., Kyiv. The venue can be accessed via the central entrance.    All participants are required to have a passport or any other ID document. Registration of participants will be held from 9.30 a.m. to 9.45 a.m.

With the aim of arranging further research seminars, we encourage potential contributors to collaborate with us and present the findings of their research studies on issues related to the activities of the National Bank of Ukraine and the operation of the financial system. Proposals (with an indication of a suitable date for the seminar, and attached presentation materials, an executive summary and/or draft contributions) should be submitted to the Research Division of the Monetary Policy and Economic Analysis Department for consideration via e-mail to:  [email protected], [email protected]).