Topics: - Monetary, fiscal and macro prudential policies in open economies. - Trade and financial links between economies. - Cross-border spillovers and policy coordination. - The neutral rate of interest in open economies. - Exchange rate determination. - Relevance of Dominant, Produce and...

The conference aims to bring together high-quality research that is at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. We invite researchers to submit empirical and theoretical contributions related to the labor market on topics such as business cycle dynamics, labor market frictions,...

The aim of the conference is to discuss theoretical approaches, empirical analysis, and practical experience of forward guidance on monetary policy. This includes topics such as the choice of time-dependent or data-dependent forward guidance on future policy rates, the publication of forecasts...

Topics: - Tensions between ex-ante risk allocation and ex-post contagion - Asset pricing from a network perspective - Propagation and amplification of idiosyncratic shocks in networks - Aggregate shocks and transmission in the economy - Cross-border banking and financial integration - Financial...

Conference Topics: - recent developments in heterogeneous-agent modeling; - the empirics of heterogeneity: micro data collection and model testing; - effects of monetary and fiscal policies in heterogeneous-agent economies; - macroeconomic drivers of inequality.

Suitable paper topics include: - Advances in modeling debt and default (multiple equilibria and equilibrium selection, policy-credibility, term structure, ...) - Alternative debt restructuring procedures and their impact - Costs of default: growth, future access to debt markets, ... -...

The aim of the workshop is to discuss new research on the importance of information frictions for macroeconomic fluctuations. Suitable paper topics include: - Information and sentiments as sources of aggregate movements - Heterogeneity in information, beliefs and expectations - Confidence and...

The aim of the conference is to discuss the implications of labor market frictions, institutions and policies for macroeconomic outcomes and the design of monetary policy. Suitable paper topics include: - The sources of cyclical fluctuations in employment, wages and the labor wedge - Micro- and...

State space models are a powerful tool to tackle difficult inference and forecasting problems common in economic and financial series. Given the emphasis placed on forecasting and nowcasting in modern central banks and other financial institutions, state space models seem a much under-utilized...

In the last few decades, house prices have undergone major medium-run fluctuations in many industrialized economies. Boom-bust cycles in house prices, coupled with a substantial increase in household indebtedness, have drawn the attention of policymakers and academics towards the developments in...