The objective of the EAAE PhD Workshop is to give PhD students from different Countries the opportunity to present their research in a conference setting and to get feedback from peers and senior economists. Proposals are welcome in the areas of agricultural, environmental, food and development...

The seminar intends to take a fresh look at agricultural insurance markets in Europe, their up to date designs and commodities covered and how these affect farmer adoption and actual levels of risk reduction. It also investigates the role of public policy in the provision of agricultural...

Topics: 1. Empirical Evidence 2. Ricardian Models of Producer Heterogeneity 3. Producer Heterogeneity with Product Differentiation and Entry/Exit a. Modelling Framework (Closed Economy) b. Open Economy c. Competition and Endogenous Markups d. Extensions (Factor Abundance, Innovation, Dynamics,...

The 24th EABCN training school will be a three days course on 'Advances in Bayesian Analysis of DSGE Models' taught by Professor Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania). The course will cover the recent advances in the Bayesian analysis of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE)...

We are pleased to announce details of the latest EABCN Training School; a three-day course entitled "Term structure models and the zero lower bound". Dr Jens Christensen will teach the course. Jens Christensen is a senior economist in the Financial Research Section of the Federal Reserve Bank of...

The workshop welcomes submissions by PhD students at any stage of their PhD, as well as students who complete their PhD in 2015. There will be two types of contributions: contributed papers and posters presentation. Proposals are welcome in the areas of agricultural, environmental, food and...

The seminar will focus on both theories and empirical applications of policy and governance of agri-food value chains. Emphasis is on applications using various methodologies such as econometrics, simulations, experimental economics, networks, mathematical programming and case studies. Topics: -...

This course aims to introduce students to the state-of-the-art modeling in an open economy for the study of monetary and fiscal policy questions. Gianluca Benigno will teach the course. The following programme outlines the structure of the course: - Exchange Rate Determination and Monetary...

This course covers empirical methods for inflation forecasting. However, many of the principles that seem to be useful in predicting inflation turn out to be important on other forecasting contexts too. For example, in inflation prediction and in other contexts, models which are very simple and...

The course consists of several distinct, but interconnected lectures: · Lecture 1. Simple Models of Policy Interactions: Some Monetary Doctrines · Lecture 2. Fiscal Theory of the Price Level · Lecture 3. Policy Interactions with Tax Distortions · Lecture 4. Fiscal Limits · Lecture 5. Policy...