Bank of Italy co-organizes ECONDAT 2026 conference in Tokyo and opens paper submissions until June 7, 2026

The Bank of Italy has announced that it is co-organizing, with the Federal Reserve Board, the Bank of Canada, Sveriges Riksbank, the Bank of Japan and the Central Bank Research Association, the eighth ECONDAT conference on nontraditional data, machine learning and natural language processing in macroeconomics. The event will be held in person at the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on October 5-6, 2026 and is intended as a forum for empirical and theoretical research in macroeconomics and financial economics using data science, nontraditional data and artificial intelligence techniques. The call for papers covers topics including AI-based methods for central bank analysis, forecasting and modelling, the use of large and granular datasets such as trade, payments, mobility and social media, and new approaches to measuring economic activity and inflation. Full papers are preferred, while extended abstracts will be considered only in exceptional cases. Keynote speakers are Melissa Dell of Harvard University and Matthew Shapiro of the University of Michigan. Submissions are due by June 7, 2026. The Scientific Committee will review the papers, authors of accepted submissions will be notified by August 3, 2026, and a detailed programme will be published after the selection process.