The first day of the Central Bank Research Association’s 2025 Annual Meeting was hosted at the Boston Fed on August 6th. The annual meeting was co-organized with the Harvard Business School - Pricing Lab, Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3)

CEBRA’s mission is to encourage applied and theoretical research on topics relevant to central banks, financial regulators, international financial institutions, and fiscal authorities, as well as to connect the research staff of these institutions with academia.

2025 annual meeting sessions included sessions that explored the challenges for models and policy following post-COVID inflation, tariffs and inflation, and using generative AI to enhance inflation nowcasting, among other topics.

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