This two-week seminar aims to improve participants’ understanding of current modelling strategies and forecasting techniques. The event is a combination of lectures on the theory and methods of policy analysis and design, practical problems in modelling and forecasting and computer-based...

The topics of the workshop include large dimensional panel data, factor models, random matrix theory, sparse high-dimensional models, model selection, model averaging, large financial data, and other high-dimensional econometric models.

Topics: - The financialization of commodity futures markets and their integration with other asset classes - Asset pricing models for commodities, - Investing in commodities and momentum strategies with commodity futures, - Risk management of commodities, and - Dodd-Frank and the regulation of...

The conference aims to provide a forum for debate among researchers and policy makers from around the world on the performance of banking and financial markets, financial stability and risk management, and the monetary, regulatory and institutional environment, in light of the recent financial...

This seminar provides financial regulators with a structured way of thinking through these issues and applying the ideas to financial regulatory topics. Topics: - market failure analysis; - cost-benefit analysis; - compliance analysis; - embedding best practice within an institution; and - case...

The conference aims to bring together leading researchers to discuss recent developments in empirical banking research. The organising committee invites submissions of high-quality research papers on banking in Emerging MarketsTopics: - The role of geographical and hierarchical distance in...

The forum aims to promote communication and collaboration of researchers interested in various issues of modernization study. Here we will focus on five themes. - Modernization and world economy - Modernization and global civic society - Modernization and environmental change - Modernization and...

The aim of this conference is to explore the role of rising powers in the re-structuring of the global economy and the challenges and tensions which their rise may provoke. Amongst the questions we will be asking are: How might the rise of the BRICS impact upon the International Financial...

The aim of the conference is to bring together economists, econometricians, statisticians and social scientists interested in or working on panel data issues. The program will consist of invited and contributed papers that cover a broad spectrum of theoretical and applied panel data research.

The aim of this workshop is to allow those responsible for the design and implementation of such policies to deepen their theoretical understanding of monetary operations and to compare and contrast experiences with their peers. Topics: - lessons learned from the financial crisis; - forms of...