The summer school is intended for PhD students, post-docs and junior faculty members. The aim is to provide young researchers with an overview of the recent advances in impact evaluation methods and applications in development economics. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss...

The conference will provide a forum to discuss innovative research on long-term growth, the determinants of natural real interest rates, and secular stagnation and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. The Program Committee welcomes papers addressing (but not...

We now invite submissions for this conference from interested researchers on any topic within the area of Development Economics.

Topics: - cross-border financial linkages and monetary policy; - trade integration, financial integration and the propagation of and adjustment to shocks; - sovereign risk, financial frictions and monetary policy; - standard and non-standard monetary policies in multi-sector/multi-country...

This meeting is at the same time the annual symposium of the CEPR Development Economics Programme, the Twentieth BREAD Development Economics Conference and AMID Third Network Annual Conference. We invite submissions for the CEPR/BREAD/AMID conference from interested researchers on any topics...

Topics: - risk management and corporate governance in financial institutions - transparency of risk models, within and outside the organization - compensation, risk-taking and risk management - endogenous risk, liquidity risk and systemic risk - benefits and pitfalls of reduced-form models in...

Topics of the 2011 meeting include: 1) Public debt and the process of fiscal rebalancing: - Sustainability considerations of public debt - Debt consolidation in times of recessions 2) Fiscal Policy in a Globalized World - Relation of fiscal debt and external debt - The role of foreign currency...

Topics: - Political and economic determinants of reforms - Information, the media and economic policies - Politics and the business cycle - Economic crises and political outcomes

Topics: 1) Sources of financial frictions: - Sources of liquidity - Reasons of market incompleteness and dysfunctions - Role of banks 2) Financial frictions in macromodels - Financial sector and real economy - Sources and consequences of financial crises - ‘Sudden stops’, financial contagion...

Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models (DSGE) command wide support among macroeconomists as a modeling methodology. In addition, they are widely used by policy institutions for both policy assessments and forecasting exercises. Nevertheless, there is much less agreement about the details...