The Economic Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago conducts policy-relevant research in macroeconomics, microeconomics, financial studies, and regional economics issues.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago hosts annual Automotive Outlook Symposiums. The symposiums focus on the forces shaping the vehicle industry. The topics include the future for the U.S. automotive industry, sales outlook, heavy truck industry outlook, dealers' and suppliers' perspective on the sales outlook and the consensus outlook of symposium participants.
Since the early 1960s, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition has served as a forum for academics, regulators and industry participants to debate current issues affecting the financial services industry. Each year, the purpose of the conference is to continue that tradition and to look toward the future. This conference series site offers an opportunity to review the changes that the industry addressed and some of the academics and policy experts who took on the challenge.
The annual Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago International Finance Conference is designed to focus on important current international issues in banking and finance that are best analyzed by bringing together researchers and policymakers from different countries and different perspectives. The conference is generally cosponsored with a major international organization in order to enhance both the transnational visibility and credibility.
The payments team of the Economic Research Department conducts high quality and policy-relevant research targeted for industry experts, policymakers and the academic community. As part of this mission, in 1999, the team convened an annual payments conference to advance the team's knowledge and research agenda as well as to foster dialogue among senior payments executives and to uncover emerging payment trends.
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