Topics: Education and life long learning; Social cohesion; Sustainable development, and social responsibility of companies; Employment; Competence, knowledge, and human capital management; Productivity, competition, growth; Innovation: systems, models and definitions; Entrepreneurship;...

Forecasting is a key tool in applied macroeconometrics. However, occurrences like the subprime crisis are a great challenge for forecasting. On the one hand, it is of interest whether a crisis will occur or not. On the other hand, the forecasts of real or financial variables might be disturbed...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers and practitioners to promote and exchange ideas in the field of macroeconometric modelling. Contributions should apply modern time series or paneleconometric techniques to macroeconomic problems, where the economics of the euro...

Der zweitägige Workshop soll ein Forum für den Austausch und die Diskussion von aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen aus dem Bereich der Makroökonomik bieten und gleichzeitig zur besseren Vernetzung der Konjunkturforschung in Deutschland beitragen. Willkommen sind prinzipiell Vortragsangebote aus...

The CMSG solicits papers in all areas of macroeconomics.

Topic: Policies of Economic and Social Development in Europe The conference has 7 specific areas of focus: - Institutions for Economic Growth - The Efficiency of Transaction Costs - Markets and Human Resources - Economics of a Knowledge Based Society - Institutions, Innovation and Productivity -...

The organizers invite the submission of papers related to the broad theme of real-time data analysis in macroeconomics and finance. This includes topics such as • the creation of new real-time macroeconomic databases • modeling or forecasting data revision • constructing and evaluating...

In the past five years, central banks have devoted considerable effort to build general equilibrium models that can be used as policy analysis tools and also to help understand the links between money, inflation and business cycle fluctuations. In order to be useful for policy making, such...

Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University) Lecture I: Overview, intertemporal models of the current account, global current account imbalances. Challenges to the canonical model. Lecture II: Sovereign Risk and Investment for Emerging markets. Lecture III: Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy; Speculative...

Jonas Dovern and Jens Hogrefe (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) Empirical Methods in Macroeconomics (module I) Topics: 1. Introduction to Econometrics 2. The Classical Multiple Regression Model 3. Properties of the OLS Estimator 4. Hypothesis Tests 5. Selection of Explanatory Variables 6....