The program will include several sessions covering the main areas of International Macroeconomics. Sessions and covered topics: - International macroeconomics and finance (JEL): - Exchange rates, exchange-rate regimes, international monetary system; - Economic growth, business cycles,...

Arranged around the theme "Policy Options for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth," the conference will assess the global pandemic and economic recovery and the mounting pressures on labor markets, supply chains, and price levels, as well as enduring challenges including economic inequality, fiscal...

A mixed-frequency semi-structural model is used for estimating unobservable quantities such as the output gap, the Phillips curve and the NAIRU in real time. We consider two specifications: in one the output gap is observed as the official CBO measure, in the other is unobserved and derived via...

Co-authors: Domenico Giannone (Amazon.com) and Anna Kovner (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) We study the relationship between bank capital ratios and the distribution of future real GDP growth. Growth in the aggregate bank capital ratio corresponds to a smaller left tail of GDP—smaller...

Online BOFIT seminars are open to all researchers interested in the subjects covered.

Themes: - Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital-Labor Substitution; - Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Immigration: Evidence from German Establishments; - Productivity Impacts of Seasonal Migration: Evidence from New Zealand; - New-Keynesian Trade:...

The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Virtual Workshop “Towards Sustainable Growth” to be held via Zoom on 10 December 2021. RIDGE invites authors to submit papers to the Workshop. The idea is to create a forum...

This year marks the 3rd Global Innovative Growth Forum (GIGF) with the theme of “New Challenges for Innovative Growth in th Post-Pandemic Era”. Continuing the discussion from last year’s GIGF theme, “Innovative and Sustainable Growth in the Post COVID-19 Era”, the upcoming forum will...

Topics to be discussed include but are not limited to: - Empirical behavior of gross and net flows and the labor market stocks; - Flows of workers versus jobs; - Cross-country relationships between labor flows and macroeconomic variables; - The role of labor market policies for labor market...

The FSC Research Workshop 2021 will be held on 19 November in conjunction with the Financial Stability Conference (FSC) as an online event. The workshop discusses relevant aspects in the context of corona crisis, climate change risks and crisis management. The challenge is to give a brief and...