Introduction

This volume of the International Journal of Central Banking includes the proceedings from the conference titled “The Interplay between Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy,” hosted by the Czech National Bank on June 19–20, 2017. In addition to the papers and discussions, this issue contains the prepared remarks given at the conference by Jiˇr´ı Rusnok (Governor, Czech National Bank) and commentaries from Frank Smets (European Central Bank), Sergey Slobodyan (CERGE-EI), and Athanasios Orphanides (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The conference was organized by Boragan Aruoba, Pierpaolo Benigno, Loretta Mester, Lucrezia Reichlin, and Barbara Rossi