This two-week seminar aims to improve participants’ understanding of current modelling strategies and forecasting techniques. The following topics will be covered: - unit roots, cointegration and error-correction mechanisms; - techniques for modelling unobserved economic components,...

The conference organizers welcome submissions of a theoretical or empirical nature. Relevant topics: - The interactions between aggregate demand and the labor market; jobless recoveries; and the macroeconomic implications of long-term unemployment. - Macroeconomic policies in times of a crisis;...

This one-week seminar will introduce central bankers to economic modelling techniques for monetary policy purposes by reviewing various modelling approaches: theoretical models of the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) type and estimated time-series models, including (semi) structural...