The Young Researcher Forum, organized by the National Bank of Ukraine, will take place on 23 May 2025. The event will be held in the long-awaited offline format in Kyiv.
The tradition of engaging with students and young researchers began in 2018. Since then, the NBU has been annually holding scientific conferences for students and young researchers, except for a forced break in 2022.
This year, the format of the forum has been expanded: in addition to the traditional presentations of completed research, there will also be poster presentations of extended abstracts or promising research proposals.
The Forum will serve as a platform not only for presenting academic research but also for discussing ideas, analyzing preliminary results, receiving feedback and recommendations from leading experts, and establishing contacts within Ukraine’s research community.
The event will focus on current challenges facing central banks amid economic shocks, global uncertainty, the impact of war, fragmentation processes, and post-war recovery.
The NBU has selected the best research papers for presentation at the Forum. Among the authors are students and postgraduate researchers from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy," Kyiv School of Economics, the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute," American University Kyiv, Odesa National Economic University, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.
During the event, research will be presented on a wide range of topics, including:
- Asymmetric impact of the monetary policy on SME lending rates
- From clicks to careers: what Ukraine’s most popular job search site says about regional employment trends
- Assessing the reliability of foreign-exchange intervention indicators through dynamic macroeconomic relationships
- Targeted long-term refinancing operations (TLTROs) in Ukraine as a method of lending provided by the NBU
- Asymmetric impact of the NBU’s monetary policy on consumer lending in wartime: an empirical analysis of regional differences
- Organization of the risk management system in Ukrainian banks
- Rresilience of the hryvnia exchange rate in the context of global trade tensions: challenges and opportunities for applicants
- Key risk factors in consumer lending and ways to minimize them
- Croatia vs. Bosnia: whose path after the war is closer to Ukraine’s needs?
- Assessing the differential impacts of climate change on economic and financial cycles in Ukraine
- Fundamental analysis of gold market determinants in the context of increasing geoeconomic tensions
- How war changes the economy: a look through the prism of import transformation during the war.
Dr Viktor Koziuk, Professor at West Ukrainian National University, will join the Forum as a keynote speaker and deliver a presentation "Central Bank Independence: How Research Has Changed Monetary Policy Institutions."
The conference agenda and speaker information are available here.
The Forum will be broadcast live on the NBU’s website and on the NBU’s official YouTube channel.
Join the live stream and see you at the Forum!