57th Konstanz Seminar, 2026

The conference will be held from Tuesday, May 19th to Thursday, May 21st 2026.

Participation is by invitation only.

Program as pdf.


Presenters and discussants:

Tereza Ranošová, Deutsche Bundesbank

Financial Constraints and Capital-Labor Substitution in Response to Monetary Policy (with Hanna Onyshchenko)

Discussant: Beatriz González, Banco de España 


Christian Bayer, University of Bonn

Fiscal constraints on Monetary Policy: How Debt Limits Monetary Effectiveness (with Zheng Gong and Keith Kuester)

Discussant: Xavier Ragot, Science Po


Francesco Bianchi, Johns Hopkins University

Fiscal Policy and the Saving Glut of the Rich (with Leonardo Melosi, Nicolò Ceneri and Alessandro T. Villa)

Discussant: Ralph Luetticke, University of Tübingen


Maxime Phillot, Swiss National Bank

Treasury Supply Shocks: Propagation Through Debt Expansion and Maturity Adjustment (with Huixin Bi and Sarah Zubairy)

Discussant: Emanuel Moench, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management


Nitya Pandalai Nayar, University of Texas at Austin

Noisy News: Theory and Evidence from AI (with Christoph Boehm, Zhen Huo and Andrei Levchenko)

Discussant: Wouter den Haan, London School of Economics


Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Columbia University

Transitory and Permanent Import Tariff Shocks in the United States: An Empirical Investigation (with Martín Uribe)

Discussant: Tommaso Monacelli, Bocconi University


Christoph Boehm, University of Texas at Austin

Monetary Policy without Moving Interest Rates: The Fed Non-Yield Shock (with Niklas Kroner)

Discussant: Peter Karadi, European Central Bank


Sanjay R. Singh, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and UC Davis

Real and Nominal Assets under Inflation Targeting (with Nicolas Caramp)

Discussant: Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Bank of England


Corina Boar, New York University

Nonlinear Inflation Dynamics in Menu Cost Economies (with Andres Blanco, Callum Jones, and Virgiliu Midrigan)

Discussant: Anton Nakov, European Central Bank


Policy session:

Christopher J. Waller

Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System