The conference will focus on perspectives for world trade and the economic outlook for major economies. - Session 1: Global Economy - Session 2: European Economy

The conference aims to bring together high-quality research that is at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. We invite researchers to submit related empirical and theoretical contributions. Papers using microeconomic data are especially welcome. Among the areas of interest...

Topic: any area of macroeconomics and related fields.

Research in the MG programme covers long-run macroeconomic issues including: - Economic growth; - Inequality; - Political economy; - Structural change; - Macroeconomic aspects of development.

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy - Tommaso Monacelli (Bocconi University) Overview: 1. Evidence 2. Credit Market Imperfections and the General Equilibrium: Firms 3. Credit Market Imperfections and the General Equilibrium: Households 4. Credit frictions and Labor Markets 5. Credit Frictions...

Macroeconomics in Open Economies - Cedric Tille (Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva) The course consists of two main parts. We first review the major building blocks of international economics. In the second part, we focus more extensively on selected topics...

Topic: any area of macroeconomics and related fields.

Topics: - International adjustment dynamics; - Current account imbalances and international capital flows; - Global financial crises; - Open-economy macroeconomic models; - Exchange rates; - International dimensions of monetary and fiscal policy; - Sovereign risk.