The financial crisis and the subsequent economic recovery were associated with spectacular price movements in a number asset markets. Understanding these fluctuations and their interactions with the macro economy remains challenging. The conference seeks to bring together innovative work...

Prof. Lutz Kilian (U. Michigan) will cover the determination of the price of oil in global markets and the relationship between the price of oil and the macroeconomy (inflation, growth, financial markets). The program will include: - Determinants of historical oil price fluctuations - How...

The conference seeks to bring together innovative theoretical and empirical work advancing our knowledge on asset price behaviour, addressing the following (non-exclusive) list of topics: - New explanations for aggregate asset price fluctuations (bond prices, stock prices, housing prices) -...

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.

The workshop will provide a forum for the presentation of recent theoretical and empirical contributions regarding the role of real-time and survey data in forecasting macroeconomic and financial variables. The recent period of heightened economic and financial uncertainty has demonstrated the...