Inflation, Money, Output

Economic and Financial Data underpinning Analysis and Policy Making

2015

Prague, Czech Republic

Today, financial statistics are of paramount importance. They inform and determine business and investment decisions, policy–making, and shape our expectations for the future.

The purpose of this workshop was to determine which statistics and data are available in the archives of financial institutions, and to identify promising areas for future research.

eabh in cooperation with  the Czech National Bank and the Czech Banking Association.

Programme

1330 - 1345	Opening Jakub Kunert, Czech National Bank Malanie Aspey, The Rothschild Archive
1345 - 1500	Origins of Data Collections Chair: Jakub Kunert, Czech National Bank Origins of Slovak Economic Statistics Frántišek Chudják & Andrea Leková, National Bank of Slovakia Information Collection and Dissemination at BIS Daniel Wirt, Bank for International Settlements Rise and Fall of Research Departments in Spanish Financial Institutions José García Ruíz, Universidad Complutense FRASER: Data preservation Project of the Federal Reserve of St. Louis Katrina Stierholz, Federal Reserve of St. Louis Discussion
1500 - 1515	Coffe Break
1515 - 1645	New Ways of Using Data Collections Chair: Piet Clement, Bank for International Settlements Analysis of Long-Run Historical Data at the Bank of England Ryland Thomas, Bank of England Building up Data for French Financial History: The DFIH Papers Raphaël Hekimian, West Paris University ASCI: A New Dataset on Italian Banking System Paolo Piselli, Bank of Italy Challenges of Multi-country Dataprojects Brindusa Costache, National Bank of Romania, Kalina Dimitrova, Bulgarian National Bank, Sophia Lazaretou, Bank of Greece Research on Danish Monetary Statistics Kim Abildgren, Danmarks Nationalbank Discussion
1645 - 1700	Concluding Remarks Aurel Schubert, European Central Bank