The workshop organizers invite researchers to submit papers covering issues in all areas linking finance and politics. Topics: Political economy of banking; Electoral cycles and banks’ behavior; Political systems and financial crises; Political connections of firms; Political uncertainty and...

The EcoMod Modeling School will offer in Prague, 8 five-day intensive hands-on courses in general equilibrium modeling, GVAR, DSGE, fiscal and budgetary policy and macro-econometric modeling using GAMS, Matlab, dynare and Eviews. Introductory and advanced levels. The following courses will be...

The EcoMod Modeling School will offer intensive hands-on courses in general equilibrium modeling, GVAR, DSGE, fiscal and budgetary policy and macro-econometric modeling using GAMS, Matlab, dynare and Eviews. The following courses will be offered: - Energy and Environmental CGE Modeling with...

This workshop explores life-course influences on the different aspects of retirement. Example topics are: - how working careers influence retirement age and pensions, - how childhood living conditions influence health and well-being after retirement, - how cumulative (dis)advantages shape social...

The goal of the workshop is to bring together international scholars working on current issues in taxation. Topics: - Accounting for income taxes - Tax accounting and capital markets - Similarities and differences between tax and financial accounting; book-tax conformity - Tax planning, tax...

The purpose of the workshop is to survey some recent developments in non-semimartingales like fractional Brownian motion in stochastic finance. The use of non-semimartingales is partially motivated by pricing models with transaction costs, or pricing non-tradeable assets, like electricity. The...

The programme consists of lectures presented by staff members, presentations by doctoral students and discussion on their research plans.

The Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT) and Centre for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR) will organise a workshop on macroeconomic research for Russia and other transition countries. We look forward to receiving papers addressing various topics in macroeconomics,...