This year the main theme is: econometric methods for complex models, large and big data, and their applications to macroeconomics and finance (economic uncertainty, financial stability and risk measurement). Topics: - Financial econometrics - Microeconometrics and program evaluation -...

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 course will cover both the theoretical and empirical issues related to finance and the macroeconomy through the lenses of financial accelerator type models.