Theme of the Conference: Fifteen years after the Global Financial Crisis: Recessions and Business Cycles in the History of Economic Thought. Special attention will be granted to proposals that aim to explore how economists have explained the business cycle phenomenon in general, and its crisis...

This seminar helps early stage PhD candidates design their research project. In particular, participants will: - acknowledge process, philosophical, and methodological ambiguities in their research; - understand the interplay between theory, method, data, rhetoric, and authorship in their...

Conference theme: The global economy is on an uncertain recovery path from the unprecedented pandemic recession. Policymakers need to evaluate the new macroeconomic landscape and formulate macroeconomic policy appropriately. This conference will contribute to this debate. Topics: - The...

This seminar helps early stage PhD candidates design their research project. In particular, participants will: - acknowledge process, philosophical, and methodological ambiguities in their research; - understand the interplay between theory, method, data, rhetoric, and authorship in their...

Topics: - Decoupling of advanced and emerging countries' growth prospects - Domestic and global drivers of low growth and low interest rates: demand for safe assets, demographics, productivity growth - Government debt policy in a low interest rate environment - Secular decline in interest rates...

CANCELLED due to uncertainty related to COVID-19

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

The workshop aims at creating a network of researchers working in closely related fields, and is primarily targeted at macroeconomists active in Belgium.

The aim of this two-day workshop is to bring together researchers working on topics in Empirical Macroeconomics to present and discuss their ongoing research. We invite contributions on issues related to Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Business Cycle Analysis or International Macroeconomics.