8:15 - 8:45: Registration

8:45 – 9:00:  Welcome by Ida Wolden Bache (Norges Bank)  

9:00 – 11:00: Session 1: Jordi Galí (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Aysegul Sahin (Princeton University)

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break         

11:00 – 12:30: Session 2: Chris Erceg (International Monetary Fund) and Luiz Pereira da Silva (LSE)

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 - 15:15: Session 3: Sarah Hunter (Reserve Bank of Australia), Alan Taylor (Bank of England), and Anna Seim (Sveriges Riksbank)  

15:00 - 15:15: Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:15: Session 4: Frank Smets (Bank for International Settlements) and Sharon Kozicki (Bank of Canada)

Tuesday, March 3 
8:45 – 9:15: Registration and light refreshments 

9:15 – 9:30: Welcome – Ellen Reitan, State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance. 
Chair for the day: Sindre Heyerdahl, economic commentator at E24 

9:30 – 10:00: Experience with the provision – how has it worked in practice? 
Speakers: Kjersti Haugland, Chief Economist at DNB Carnegie, and Kjetil Olsen, Chief Economist at Nordea Norway 

10:00 – 10:45: The provision seen from those who were involved when it was introduced. Panel discussion led by Sindre Heyerdahl 

Panelists: 
Siv Jensen, Minister of Finance at the time the current monetary policy provision was adopted 
Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, member of the Executive Board at the time the current provision was introduced 
Anders Vredin, member of the committee that reviewed the Central Bank Act in 2015–2017 

10:45 – 11:15: Coffee break 

11:15 – 12:45: What should the monetary policy provision look like? Presentations followed by a debate led by Sindre Heyerdahl 

Speakers: 
Roger Bjørnstad, Chief Economist at the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) 
Øystein Dørum, Chief Economist at the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) 
Ella Getz Wold, Postdoctoral Fellow at BI Norwegian Business School 
Ragnar Torvik, Professor at NTNU 

12:45 – 13:15: Mingling and light refreshments