The organizers are especially interested in contributions discussing challenges brought forward by emerging issues in macro and finance after the financial crisis and their implications for policymakers and macro modelers.

The WIFO Regional Economics Workshop is organised in honour of Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and member of WIFO's Scientific Advisory Board. This year’s workshop will focus on topics around services and their contribution to...

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Market Dynamics - Agent-Based Macroeconomics - Discrete Choice Models in Economics and Management Sciences - Emergence and Dynamics of Norms and Conventions - Financial Market and Organization Models (Stock Price Dynamics, Herding in...

The workshop will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of current trends and challenging problems in model selection and related shrinkage methods. Key researchers will deliver invited presentations. Contributed presentations are welcome.

Topics: 1. The Basics of Present Value Models, linearization, forward projections and a framework to integrate macroeconomics and finance 2. Models for the Term Structure 2.1 The Empirical Evidence on the Expectations Theory 2.2 No Arbitrage Models, Macroeconomic Factors and Risk Premium 2.3...