The aim of the conference is to bring together leading experts from academia, central banks and other policy institutions to present their research findings involving expectations data and modelling of expectations in macroeconomics.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Economic agents’ expectation formation and updating of expectations

• The role of expectations for economic decisions

• The effect of monetary, fiscal and other economic policy interventions on economic expectations and decisions

• Implications of expectations formation processes for macroeconomic policy design and communication

• Macroeconomic consequences and policy implications of information frictions