This five-day programme developed by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) aims to equip participants with a skill set and tools in macroeconomic forecasting and modelling and is targeted at those who already have a background in statistics and econometrics at...

Following WEHIA’s recent successful tradition, the 2019 conference will be preceded by a two-days PhD School, which will be held at University College London on June 21-22, just before the beginning of the main conference. The School is aimed at PhD students and young researchers. The theme of...

This workshop will be framed around how we should fundamentally understand welfare theory, in the wake of findings from behavioural and experimental microeconomics, as an enterprise intended to be relevant to policy and mechanism design. It is structured so as to have three elements in...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together a group of researchers focusing on different aspects of the two-way relationship between income or wealth inequality and the macroeconomy. We welcome empirical, quantitative and theoretical papers, and contributions on both business cycle and growth...

We welcome papers by PhD students working in any field of economics using experimental methods to study human decision making.

TOPIC: The emergence of social preferences.

The following topics are likely to be covered: - the econometric modelling and forecasting of inflation and growth; - formulating and using varieties of mechanical, statistical, semi-structural and structural forecasting models; - forecasting at different forecast horizons; - tools for forecast...

The following topics are likely to be covered: - the econometric modelling and forecasting of inflation and growth; - formulating and using varieties of mechanical, statistical, semi-structural and structural forecasting models; - forecasting at different forecast horizons; - tools for forecast...

We welcome empirical papers about any aspect of inequality in economic outcomes (household income, consumption, wealth, earnings, employment) in developed societies, and papers that assess how welfare states are responding, or might respond.

The workshop is for PhD students and other researchers using lab-in-the field experiments in developing countries, with an interest in, but not limited to, social preferences. Presentations by expert academics with strong field experience discuss the why and how of lab-in-the field experiments,...