The “Empirical Strategies” course covers topics in econometrics and empirical modelling that are likely to be most useful to applied researchers. The main theoretical ideas are illustrated with empirical examples, mostly coming from the recent literature on policy evaluation to which...

Topics: - forecasting financial markets - economic policy, growth and financial markets - monetary and fiscal policy decision-making - portfolio and asset management - pricing and risk of financial instruments - advances in financial econometrics and statistics - exchange rate and interest rate...

Developments in capital markets, namely, current account imbalances and financial integration, and labour markets rigidities have been among the most noticed difficulties some countries have been facing after adopting the Euro. To discuss these issues, and the lessons that emerge from the...