"The purpose of the Forum is to promote the discussion of frontier research on empirical and theoretical issues in international finance, banking and macroeconomics, with a special eye on the relevance for monetary policy. In the wake of financial crises in Europe, the United States and...

The conference will bring together leading researchers in real-time analysis of economic data and will cover real-time macro- and financial econometrics, forecasting, and macroeconomic policy analysis, among other topics. Topics: - Nowcasting, forecasting, and real-time monitoring of...

Conference Program: SESSION I - Dynamic Conditional Data - Taylor Rules in Dynamic Term Structure Models - Extreme Events and the Fed - Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound SESSION II - Understanding the Great Recession - Unemployment and Business...

The program offers courses, seminars, and reading groups on the whole range of the discipline. A core curriculum presents economic foundations, and more than fifty elective classes explore the entire range of economics, in all levels of advancement. The program ends with a Mündliche Prüfung,...

The theme of the symposium is "Can Younger Americans Realize the American Dream? The Fragile Balance Sheets of Americans Under Age 40, and Why That Matters" The symposium will focus on younger Americans--often called Gen X and Gen Y--and the particular challenges they face building a healthy...

Paper submissions that adopt novel methodological approaches for addressing relevant macroeconomic and financial questions are highly encouraged. Empirical and theoretical papers are both welcome. Selection of papers will be based largely on the quality of the individual paper, but also to...

Recent economic analysis has emphasized the importance of economic uncertainty for asset prices and macroeconomic quantities. The term “uncertainty” can be broadly interpreted to include conventional notions of volatility and risk as well as the notion of Knightian uncertainty. These notions...

The NBER Macroeconomics Annual seeks to bring together the latest research on important and policy-relevant topics in macroeconomics. The span of research includes applied theory as well as empirical work, open-economy macroeconomics, and work on financial markets that bears on macroeconomics.