The conference brings together academics and central bankers from around the world to consider the implications of recent research for macroeconomic policy. For each conference, six to eight papers on a common subject are written by leading specialists in the field. Program: Session I - Capital...

Programm: -"Consumption and House Prices in the Great Recession" - Gianluca Violante, Greg Kaplan and Kurt Mitman, - “Does Vote Counting Count? Labor Productivity through the Lens of an Electoral Task” - Saverio Simonelli and Ethan Ilzetzki, - “State-Dependent Pricing and the Paradox of...

The Barcelona CREI Macroeconomics Summer School offers an overview of the current state of research in key areas of macroeconomics. Courses are taught by leading experts in their fields and cover recent developments in different areas of macroeconomics, including: growth, international finance,...

Macroeconometrics is an important area of research in economics. Time series methods for empirical macroeconomics have become very popular and widely used in the academia as well as in public and private institutions. The goal of the Barcelona Macroeconometrics Summer School is to offer courses...

The increasing availability of individual data from surveys has led not only to a significant growth in the number of academic jobs of an empirical nature using this type of information but also to a greater number of studies commissioned by public and private institutions in which this type of...

The conference will cover a broad range of themes in macroeconomics and finance with a view to the medium and long run. A special emphasis is on methodological, theoretical and empirical aspects and on their relevance for economic policy.

The increasing availability of individual data from surveys has led not only to a significant growth in the number of academic jobs of an empirical nature using this type of information but also to a greater number of studies commissioned by public and private institutions in which this type of...

This one-week event will provide a rigorous overview of the foundations of empirical finance and an exposition of selected topics vital to central bank analysis. Topics: - the construction and analysis of yield curves and other term structures; - the use of option prices to infer probability...

This one-week seminar introduces participants to some of the basic econometric tools that are relevant for this key purpose. The event will combine lectures on introductory econometric theory with a heavy focus on practical exercises on each topic. The following topics are likely to be...