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When 22 June 2026 9:00 AM
Where Central Bank of Ireland, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1

Central Bank of Ireland hosted the 10^th annual Macroprudential Conference, organised jointly with the Sveriges Riksbank, De Nederlandsche Bank, and the Deutsche Bundesbank, in our Dockland Campus on 22 & 23 June 2026.

The conference provided an excellent opportunity for policy makers, representatives of the private sector and prominent academics from around the world to gather to discuss, exchange experiences and learn from global experts in the macroprudential field. Previous conferences in the series were hosted by the Sveriges Riksbank (2015, 2016, 2018, 2023), De Nederlandsche Bank (2017, 2022, 2025) and the Deutsche Bundesbank (2019, 2024). In 2024, Central Bank of Ireland joined the organisation of the conference.

2026 Conference Agenda (PDF 216.87KB)

Welcoming Remarks:

Governor Gabriel Makhlouf, Central Bank of Ireland

SESSION I: Case Study: Failure of SVB oversight: reacting to incurred losses versus risks taken (PDF 2.25MB)

Chair: Patrick Honohan (Trinity College Dublin)

Presenter: Eric Rosengren (Visiting Scholar MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy and former President FRB Boston) (PDF 1.28MB)

Co-author: Niccolo Comati (MIT Sloan School of Management)

Discussant: Giovanni Dell’Ariccia (International Monetary Fund) (PDF 461.88KB)

Discussant: Martin Hellwig (Max Planck Institute) (PDF 82.79KB)

SESSION II: The Bank-NBFI nexus: A conceptual framework (PDF 4.39MB)

Chair: Cornelia Holthausen (European Central Bank)

Presenter: Viral Acharya (NYU Stern) (PDF 2.86MB)

Co-authors: Nicola Cetorelli (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) and Bruce Tuckman (NYU Stern)

Discussant: Klaas Knot (former President of De Nederlandsche Bank) (PDF 229.42KB)

Discussant: Jeremy Stein (Harvard University) (PDF 137.67KB)

SESSION III: Cross-border payments in the long run: structure and governance 1870-2025 (PDF 2.87MB)

Chair: Fritzi Koehler-Geib (Bundesbank)

Presenter: Catherine Schenk (Oxford University) (PDF 2.7MB)

Discussant: Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics) (PDF 3.1MB)

Discussant: Antoine Martin (Swiss National Bank)

SESSION IV Keynote: Financial stability, banking resilience and growth

Presenter: José Manuel Campa (IESE Business School and former Chairperson of the European Banking Authority)

Moderator: Mary-Elizabeth McMunn (Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Ireland)

SESSION V: Central Bank Losses as Private Sector Insurance

Chair: Agnès Bénassy-Quéré (Banque de France)

Presenter: Refet S. Gurkaynak (Bilkent University and CEPR)

Co-authors: Burçin Kısacıkoğlu (Bilkent and CEPR) and Oreste Tristani (ECB and CEPR)

Discussant: Anna Cieslak (Duke University) (PDF 663.17KB)

Discussant: Vítor Constancio (former Vice-President of the European Central Bank)

SESSION VI: Stablecoins: implications for global financial stability

Chair: Vasileios Madouros (Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Ireland)

Presenter: Christine Parlour (University of California at Berkley)

Discussant: Jon Cunliffe (former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England for Financial Stability)

Discussant: Cyril Monnet (University of Bern) (PDF 248.69KB)

SESSION VII: A comprehensive proposal to simplify banks’ solvency and resolution requirements without reducing the resilience of the system (PDF 1.09MB)

Chair: Sharon Donnery (Member of the Supervisory Board of the ECB)

Presenter: Jesús Saurina (Adviser to the Governor, Banco de España and former Member of the Single Resolution Board) (PDF 302.46KB)

Discussant: Stephen G. Cecchetti (Brandeis University and European Systemic Risk Board) (PDF 705.24KB)

Discussant: Carolyn Wilkins (External Member of the Financial Policy Committee (Bank of England), and Senior Advisor and Lecturer, Griswold Center, Princeton University) (PDF 394.97KB)

SESSION VIII: Policy panel: Cryptocurrencies: into the financial mainstream?

Chair: Cecilia Skingsley (Governor of Stockholm County)

Panellist: Ulrich Bindseil (Technical University Berlin)

Panellist: Igor Makarov (London School of Economics)

Panellist: Niall Carson (CEO of CoinJar Europe)

To contact the organising committee, please email macroprudentialconference2026@centralbank.ie

Scientific committee

Elena Carletti (Bocconi University)

Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago)

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University)

Rafael Repullo (CEMFI)

Hélène Rey (London Business School)

Dimitri Vayanos (London School of Economics)

Organising committee

Fergal McCann (Central Bank of Ireland)

Niamh Hallissey (Central Bank of Ireland)

Maurice Bun (De Nederlandsche Bank)

Falko Fecht (Deutsche Bundesbank)

Jonas Niemeyer (Sveriges Riksbank)